Village Administrator of Aley Than Kyaw Village extorts millions from Rohingya
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| Aley Than Kyaw village adminstrator Maung Thet Naing |
RB News
July 27, 2013
Maungdaw, Arakan - In Aley Than Kyaw Village, in the Maungdaw Township, the village administrator is Maung Thet Naing. In the past, Naing has extorted money from Rohingya by collaborating with Nasaka and making baseless accusations. Now, Naing is asking money from villagers to renovate his office.
According to the villagers, Maung Thet Naing is extorting millions every month. He does this in many ways. He takes like a "legal robber", from shop keepers, boat owners and fisheries enterprise owners.
Recently, a paddy field owner Sayed Ullah son of Mogul Ahmed, a fabric shop keeper Ali Johar son of Farooque, a fisheries enterprise owner Mohammed Shafi son of Amir Gulal, and a machinery shop keeper Jaber son of Fawzal had to pay 100,000 Kyat each to Maung Thet Naing.
125 boat owners had to pay 25,000 Kyat each. Another 40 fishing boats had to pay 100,000 Kyat each. In total, about 220 shop keepers paid 10,000 to 15,000 Kyat each.
Maung Thet Naing is a Rakhine, native of Sittwe. The previous notorious village administrator Zaw Htoo is his brother-in-law. He is son-in-law of Tin Maung, the village administrator of U-Daung, who recently extorted 26.1 Million Kyat from the Rohingya villagers.
It is reported that he had paid 10 Million Kyat to the Maungdaw Township administrator for getting the position of village administrator.
“We need to pay more than half of our monthly income to village administrator as extortion. We would be tortured, inhumanely beaten and would be arrested if we don’t fulfill. At the end we cannot avoid that extortion. So we want the Union government and the parliament knows our daily plight.” a villager told RB News.
