Myanmar Stages Fake Event on Rohingya Repatriation ahead of UNSC Visit
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| The family [of the village administrator] that Myanmar claimed to have returned from Bangladesh. [Photo: Facebook MOI] |
RB News
April 15, 2018
Maungdaw, Arakan
State – The Myanmar Government has staged a fake event in relation to the Rohingya repatriation from Bangladesh ahead of the visit by the UN Security
Council members to northern Arakan state, Myanmar, where Genocide has been
taking place.
On Saturday (Apr
14), the Facebook page of Myanmar’s Information Portal (MOI) claimed that a
(Rohingya) Muslim family of five that had fled to Bangladesh returned to
Myanmar. And they were received at ‘Taung Pyo Latwei’ Entry (Receiving) Point
and *NV Cards were issued to them.
Later, our
investigation has found that this family of five was NOT a Rohingya refugee
family returning from Bangladesh but were the administrator of ‘Taung Pyo Latya’
village, Aftar Alam s/o Mv Rashid, and his family.
“We were shocked
to hear anybody would return here amidst volatile condition
here. Many people are still fleeing. So, we investigated who the exactly returnees
were and found out that they are the family of the administrator of ‘Taung Pyo
Latya’ village. Almost all the Rohingya villages were burnt down in Taung Pyo
but his house wasn’t because he’s a government’s informant and sycophant,” said
a source close to his relatives.
The source
further added “upon the direction by the government, he along with a few family
members of his has left for Bangladesh and stayed at a Bangladeshi house which is
just a small creek across to ‘No Man’s Land’ [between Myanmar and Bangladesh
Border]. His main purpose was to work as an informant for the Myanmar Gov’t and
persuade thousands of Rohingya refugees are taking shelter there. When failed
to persuade anyone to return, they themselves came back as returnees. And the
authorities portrayed them to be (refugee) returnees from Bangladesh. This is a DECEPTION.”
The move by the
Myanmar authorities to stage the fake event came in the backdrop of the recent
visit by the Myanmar Social Welfare Minister, Win Myat Aye, and is apparently
aimed to lure the Rohingya Genocide Survivors in Bangladesh who are not
returning because of the high risks to their lives and the fear that they will
be forced to live in Auschwitz-style concentration camps, which Myanmar calls
temporary rehabilitation camps, permanently. The Myanmar Security Forces have
several times threatened and attempted to lure the Rohingya survivors to return
to Myanmar in the recent months and live in the (concentration) camps built for
them in the country.
The Officials
from the United Nations Security Council are also set to visit the later this month
for the first time after years of violence against Rohingya since 2012.
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| Auschwitz-style concentration camps in northern Maungdaw, which Myanmar calls temporary rehabilitation camps [Photo: Thein Zaw/AP] |
*NV Card = National Verification Card is issued to a foreigner for verification while he/she is applying for citizenship in Myanmar. Rohingya rejects this because they are not foreigners that need to go through this process but their citizenship needs to be restored stripped off by the 1982 Citizenship Law of Burma coined by the late dictator Ne Win violating existing international norms to specifically the Rohingya ethnic minority.
[Reported by
Sabit Hamid; Edited by M.S. Anwar]
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