Five Displaced Rohingyas Arrested in Sittwe

RB News 

May 12, 2013

Sittwe (Akyab), Arakan - Today (12.05.2013), around 2pm, the district Police Commissioner of Sittwe and his group arbitrarily arrested five displaced Rohingyas from the camp of Thet Kay Pyin. The commissioner is said to have taken the responsibility of the regional security as well. 

“They got arrested when they were leaving the mosque at the displaced camps after praying the afternoon prayer. Again in the evening, the said commissioner, being high on alcohol, drove his car along the displaced camps so recklessly that many displaced Rohingyas had to face risks for their lives and unnecessary nuisances. 

And the profiles of the arrested displaced Rohingyas are: 

(1) U Kabir Ahmed S/o U Fazal Ahmed, 45, from the quarter of Sak-Yun-Zu 

(2) Mukhtar Ahmed S/o Syed Hussain, 25, from the quarter of Sak-Yun-Zu 

(3) U Maung Hla S/o U Abdu Shukkor, 65, from the quarter of Kun Tan 

(4) Abul Kalam S/o U Syed Ali, 25, from the quarter of Sak-Yun-Zu 

(5) U Abdurrahman S/o U Kadir Hussain, 46, from the quarter of Sak-Yun-Zu 

Since Sittwe Police’s arbitrary and reckless arrests in relation to the quarrel took place on 26th April 2013, many displaced Rohingyas are on the run, going into hiding and even have to leave Arakan for another country” said a local Rohingya in Sittwe. 

“What the president of the country U Thein Sein actually doing is just that he is flattering international community with his hypocritically sweet speeches in order to gain their supports. In reality, the recklessness and brutality of Burmese authority against the crippled Rohingya community are not but only increasing day by day” he exclaimed.

(Translated into English by Maung Aurther)