The most human right violation in the world going on this part of world. Its bigger then other problem of UN. As a citizen of Burma we have to live outside other country. People killed, Forced labor and rape is common thing inside Burma by SPDC Govt. We are without arms, lots of people killed when they showed voice against Military Junta.
(SPDC has) License to Rape
Case 1
Girl raped and killed in Maungdaw
by Kaladanpress
Sunday, 18 November 2007
Manundaw, Burma :An 11-year old girl was raped and killed by a personnel of Nasaka, Burma’s border security force on November 17, when she was grazing cattle on a hill side, said a relative of the victim.
The victim, Taslim Ara (11), daughter of Moulvi Mohammed Ali, hailed from Nazi Para of Ray Aung San Bwe village tract in Nasaka area No.1, Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, Burma, the relative added.
At about 11 am Taslima Ara accompanied by two local girls went to graze cattle. Later they went to a stream to fish. While they were fishing in the stream, a Nasaka personnel from outpost No. 1 threatened the two girls younger than Taslima Ara with a catapult. The two girls fled to their village. Taslima Ara was forced to stay with him, according to one of the relatives of the two girls.
The Nasaka personnel forced Taslima to a dry place and killed her after raping her. The two other girls informed Taslim Ara’s parents and villagers.
Her parents accompanied by relatives and some villagers went to the spot after informing the authorities. They found Taslima’s body at around 1 pm, without any clothes. The body was brought to the Nasaka camp, said a village elder.
The rapist and killer was known to the two girls as they saw him everyday, while talking the cattle to graze. The culprit was arrested by a Nasaka Captain, the elder added.
Taslima Ara's father asked the Nasaka officer to permit him to bury his daughter at the local cemetery, but the officer did not give him permission because it was a serious matter. The body was taken to Bawli Bazaar Nasaka camp No. 22, about 24 miles away from Nazir Para at about mid night for further investigations, said a friend of Taslima’s father.
The body was sent to the government clinic morgue for autopsy. But before getting the autopsy report from the doctor, the police and the Nasaka officer ordered the relatives to bury the body in Bali Bazaar local cemetery. The parents did not get the post mortem report till the time of writing this report.
“It is reprehensible. She was only 11-years old. We hope exemplary punishment will be given to the culprit,” a village elder from Bawli Bazaar said.
The refugees interviewed by Asia Watch reported appalling atrocities at the hands of the Burmese army. Rape of women after their husbands or fathers had been taken for forced labor was common. Sometimes the rapes occurred in the homes of the victims with children and relatives left to watch; sometimes the women were taken to a nearby military camp where they were sorted out by beauty. In some cases, the women were killed; in others they were allowed to return home.
Case 2
Eslam Khatun, 31, mother of six children, was the wife of the village headman of Imuddinpara, Rama Musleroi, Buthidaung. About February 1, 1992, she was at home with her children, brother-in-law and sister-in-law named Layla Begum, aged 16; her husband had been taken for forced labor and had not returned home. It had been cold, and the family was sitting next to the fire, about to get ready for bed. It was about 9 p.m. when they heard the sound of boots and soldiers speaking Burmese outside. When the soldiers forced open the door, the fire lit up Layla's face, and they saw her.
First they pulled her up by her arms, and her brother tried to stop them. They began beating him, while undressing and violently molesting Layla, though not raping her on the spot. When they dragged her and her brother from the house, the brother was bound and Layla was wearing only her earrings.
Eslam's husband, Abdul Halim returned from forced labor duty to learn of his sister and brother's abduction. He had been regularly forced to work for the military but since he was a village headman, he was also obliged to provide male laborers to the soldiers. Hoping he had a more privileged position than most villagers, he decided to go to the local army camp to ask about Layla.
Eight days later, Eslam found Layla's body in the jungle near their house. She appeared to have bled to death from her vagina. "The soldiers had been satisfied with her," Eslam said.
About 21 days later, the bodies of Abdul Halim and his brother were found dumped in the same area. Eslam herself buried her husband. She said his genitals had been cut off, his eyes gouged out, both hands cuts off and he was cut down the torso into two pieces.
A few days later, Eslam Khatun and her six children walked for two days with 250 other villagers to reach the Naaf River. Soldiers opened fire on the boats in her group but she was uninjured. About two-thirds of her village is now in Dechuapalang 1 Camp.
Case 3
Jahura Khatu , 30, is the widow of a farmer in Naikaengdam village, Buthidaung. She arrived in Bangladesh on February 1, 1992. Over the last decade, she said, Muslim villagers had been harassed continuously by local military personnel, and told they were not Burmese.
Jahura's only Burmese identification card indicated she was a Muslim foreigner. Chickens, cows, rice harvest and cash were taken freely by soldiers at any time. If there was no cash in the house when they appeared and demanded it, she said, the women were beaten and raped.
A year ago, a military camp with some 1200 soldiers was established in Naikaengdam on the site of the local mosque and cemetery, which had been just next to Jahura's house. Village households paid a fixed fee of 200 Denga (US$30; 1 US$ = 6.7 Denga/Kyat at the official Burmese exchange rate) per month to support the camp. Men were abducted house-to-house for forced labor; Jahura's husband Fazil Alam, 45, had been taken many times for road construction, usually for two or three days of service.
In December 1991, her husband was taken for labor again. One day soldiers appeared at her house to give her a bundle of bloody clothes she recognized as Fazil's. They said he had been unable to carry the assigned load, and they had beaten him to death.
After that, soldiers came back to her home again and again at random to rape her, demand money and food. A month after they brought the clothing, several soldiers came late one night and raped her again. Afterward, they took her out of her house, where three young women, all unmarried, were forced at gunpoint to walk with her to Naikaengdam Camp, about fifteen minutes away. The women were kept together, given no food or water, and raped by officers throughout that night, and all the following day. Jahura noted that an officer named "Arkanbu" was in charge. They were told that if they promised to bring other women to camp, they would be released. After sunset the women were let go, and decided on the walk home they would escape to Bangladesh.
Half the village left at the same time, in broad daylight. One hundred families walked for seven days, most carrying nothing but a little rice. On the eighth day they met soldiers at the river bank; their pillows, bedding and household items were all confiscated, and they crossed the Naaf River to Bangladesh.
Case 4
Oziba Khatun , 20, from Napura village, Maungdaw, arrived in Bangladesh the first week in February 1992 after walking seven days to the river. She said her husband, Abdul Haq, 28, had been abducted many times for forced labor under very harsh conditions, so when the soldiers came in the daytime, shortly before she fled, her husband hid in the bushes. When Oziba told the soldiers her husband was not at home, they took her instead. She was forced to leave her two children in the house, and walk for five hours with the soldiers, until they arrived at a camp in the dark. There she was raped by officers all night; she knew them to be officers by the flower symbols on their sleeves. The next day her husband came to find her at the camp, and she was released, but he was kept. She never saw him again.
Case 5
Rohima Khatun , 35, from Shigdarpara village, Maungdaw, arrived in Bangladesh about February 1. A widow, Rohima said that soldiers from the Charmael Camp, Luntin battalion, regularly forced Muslim men and youths of Shigdarpara to do hard labor. They were picked up, house by house, whenever soldiers needed workers. But in recent months, girls between the ages of 12 and 16 were being collected in the same way, from house to house. Survivors of these abductions had always been raped, and Rohima was worried about her own daughter. She also had three sons, aged 14 to 6.
One day in December 1991, a letter from the military post four miles away was delivered to Rohima's house: it said to send her daughter to the camp. Rohima did not respond. Soon thereafter, four or five soldiers burst into the house where Rohima and her four children had finished their evening meal. All they said was, "We're taking your daughter sightseeing." They picked her up and carried her out screaming, clubbing her brother of fourteen as he tried to protect her from them.
Rohima waited six weeks for news of her daughter from the camp. She decided then to leave Burma for Bangladesh.
Case 6
Dilara Begum , 16, of Hashuradha village, Maungdaw, had only been in Bangladesh for a few weeks when she was interviewed. She said that about the middle of February 1992, Dilara was home with her three week-old baby. Her husband, Habibul Rahman, 30, had been serving as a captive laborer but was allowed to come home each night. When he went to the market one day and failed to report back to the camp on time, two soldiers came to her house. In the presence of her 55 year-old mother-in-law and two brothers, they asked the whereabouts of her husband. Dilara did not answer and was immediately seized and forced on the floor to be raped. At the same time the mother-in-law was attacked, but fought back and escaped to a neighbor's house. Dilara continued to fight and scream, but the neighbors who burst in to protest were violently beaten. Her brothers escaped. She was raped by both soldiers.
Dilara said for the past two years soldiers had entered their house to rape her on many occasions. Sometimes they had guns and sometimes they were unarmed, she said. In her village of 400 families, she added, this abuse was common.
Case 7
Jaharu Begum , 20, from Lapia, Devina in Akyab district arrived in Bangladesh on February 11, 1992. She said that in November 1991, four or five soldiers came to her house at about 1:00 a.m. They ordered the door to be opened; Jaharu, knowing they were abducting forced laborers, said her husband, Animullah, was not home.
The soldiers then kicked down the door, spotted her husband in the room, and tied his hands. They dragged him outside the house and beat him badly, taking him as they went. After three days Jaharu still had no word about Aminullah. That night the same soldiers came back at 1:00 or 2:00 a.m. This time they took her alone to the small camp, punching and hitting her with rifle butts during the one-hour walk. At the camp various soldiers raped her continuously for about 16 hours, until they appeared to be "satisfied," as Jaharu stated. The village head was at the camp at the time. He happened to recognize her and convinced the soldiers to release her.
After a month at home with no information about her husband, Jaharu decided to flee to Bangladesh. She has no children, and no remaining relatives other than a mother who escaped to Bangladesh over a year and a half ago, about whose whereabouts Jaharu knows nothing. She joined five or six families in the trip to the river and believes only two or three families may now remain in her village of Lapia.
Case 8
Gul Mar , 25, from Ludengpara, Buthidaung, arrived in Bangladesh about February 21, 1992. She said that one afternoon sometime in October 1991, soldiers appeared at the house
where she lived with her husband, 18 month-old daughter and baby boy. That day Gul Mar was suffering from malaria. The soldiers said nothing more than, "Let's go," and led her out to where 120 women from her village were all tied with their hands in back. Some of the women were begging to bring their children; a few had infants. At first the soldiers discouraged keeping them, but relented in the end and some of the women were untied to carry the children.
They began a walk that lasted eight hours. On the way, the soldiers grew tired of the crying children. One by one, they took them from the mothers and tossed them by the roadside. One baby only 40 days old was thrown away in this way: Gul Mar estimated 20 such children were lost that night, including her own little girl.
When they arrived at Taraing military camp in the dark, the women sat under guard for four hours in a group. Each woman was given a cup of cooked rice. That was the last food Gul Mar was to see for four days. The women were then separated into groups. Gul Mar, taken to a room alone, did not see the other women again at all. She was kept for seven days in the room, raped several times a day by men in groups of four or five. Sometimes the same men returned; others were new to her.
The fourth day neighbors from her village were allowed to bring her food. They were given the message by the military that her family was to pay a 500 Denga (US$75) ransom for her release (an average salary for one month.) Her father, Kalamidi, learned of the demand when the neighbors returned to the village, but he could not raise the money until the seventh day. For Gul Mar, the rapes continued and she was not fed again. Her father finally was able to pay the fee, and the two were allowed to make the eight-hour walk home.
All families of the 120 abducted women had been informed of the same ransom. Most of the women returned, but some were never seen again. Some of their dead bodies, like that of Gul Mar's friend Rohima Khatun, 30, were dumped outside the village that week. Gul Mar found no trace of her daughter.
Kalamidi decided after this incident to take his family to Bangladesh, but it was raining, so they were delayed. In February they set off in a group of 300, bringing only what rice they could carry.
We are working whole day without wages, Thats make our country develop and money is going to SPDC.
Forced Labor
The above accounts indicate that forced labor has been part of daily life in northern Arakan for at least a decade. Any able-bodied man is subject to being forcibly recruited for hard labor at repeated intervals. He must work without pay and with little food or water for anywhere from two to thirty days. The work involved ranges from widening roads to digging irrigation canals to leveling hills — reminiscent of the projects the Khmer Rouge imposed on the Cambodian populace. It is not clear how much of the work is carried out with a specific end in mind and how much is sheer brutality which, combined with systematic rape of the women left behind when the work crews are taken away, is designed to force the Rohingyas out of Burma.
Case 1
Abdul Jalil, 70, came to Bangladesh about February 22, 1992 from Kiladaung village, Maungdaw. In his village of 600 families, Abdul Jalil knew of no adult male who had not been a forced laborer for government troops. Soldiers first took him ten years ago for road building, and he has served the military at the same camp, Kilarbil, for a decade. He had been involved in portering heavy loads and canal building, sometimes in military camps.
He said there was no change in treatment of workers over the ten years. If the load was too heavy or the worker too exhausted, there was no rest allowed. No one was allowed to stop work and sleep until midnight, at which point workers had to sleep on the roadside, without cover. Only two and a half hours of sleep were allowed. They resumed work in the dark and were not allowed to stop or eat until noon: this was the only meal, and it lasted one hour. Only a handful of cooked rice was provided. When work began again, it carried on until midnight. Availability of drinking water depended on individual soldiers who were acting as guards. Sometimes no water at all was allowed; other times workers would be ignored if they sipped from a stream.
Between eight and 20 days of service were required before release, which always followed. Those who escaped during service suffered attacks on their families, Abdul said. Those who tried to escape were usually beaten to death, as were those too ill or slow to keep up. Malaria also took a heavy toll.
At no time in ten years was any medical treatment made available to the workers. Injuries on the job were common: Abdul has a wide scar the length of his right leg, where a boulder fell on him. He was never released at the time of the injury, and remembers five days during which the leg was very bad. He also has multiple scars from punctures during beatings.
Abdul's family was never harassed to his knowledge in his absence. His two eldest sons also provided labor. Whereas the military used to just announce publicly who would be on the labor crews, Abdul said now workers are abducted house to house at night.
Around the last week of February, Abdul Jalil could no longer stand his bondage to the Burmese military, and walked the half mile from Kiladaung to the Naaf River with his three sons and wife. They met with no soldiers on the way.
Case 2
Sabed Ali, 29, a farmer from Bardaija village, Maungdaw, arrived in a refugee camp in Bangladesh with his wife and two daughters on February 13, 1992.
One morning, about a year ago, Sabed Ali said, he came out of his house to pray at about 6:00 a.m. Someone aimed a flashlight in his eyes, and a soldier told him to come forward. He ignored it and went on to pray. They made a leap for him, a chase ensued and he was soon surrounded. His elbows were tied from behind, and he was loaded with 40 kilos of rice. He was then made to walk several hours to Bardaija Camp, a military post.
When they arrived, his load was taken and his face was covered with a cloth. With four men holding his limbs on the ground, boiling water was poured over his face. He was ordered to promise that he would not resist forced labor again, and "since a crowd was watching", Sabed decided to promise. He was allowed up, and taken then to a room in the camp. Hundreds of people seemed crammed into a small room. He recognized many fellow villagers from his area, and noticed that the tightly-packed room was completely silent. He was brought there at about 8:00 p.m. He had had no food or water since he went out to pray that morning, and received none in the room.
The room had windows, and the river was visible outside. When one of the captives said something, a guard pulled him out of the room, telling the group they had to maintain silence. It was winter, but from the window Sabed saw the man stripped naked and made to stand in the river outside for the next 90 minutes. No one else spoke.
At 6:00 a.m. the entire group was roused but given no food or water. They were each loaded with 40 kilos of rice, and under guard walked 15 kilometers to deliver it at a camp. There was one armed soldier for each 10 porters. When they were unloaded, the whole group was forced to return to the first camp with another similar load, without rest, food or water. Numerous times Sabed saw Muslim villagers along the way offer water to the porters, but the soldiers always drank it. The group was forced to make three such trips before being put back in the room and allowed to rest. This routine continued along the same route to Amtola and Bulipara camps for one month. Sabed saw at least 20 fellow porters die of starvation and fever. After the first five or six days, Muslims who brought food and water along the route were allowed to feed the porters.
Sabed said the ages of this group ranged from three men over 70, to several over 50 and one nine year-old boy. When the boy was too tired to carry a bigger load, he was forced to carry many pairs of the soldiers' boots, so that they could hike in flip-flop sandals.
Sabed did not remember how many trips he made like this before he was released, after a month. His wife had been safe, with enough to eat while he was gone. But repeated service since then, and fear of more to come, convinced him to escape to Bangladesh in mid-February.
Case 3
Magbul Ahmad , 30, came to Bangladesh from Donchara village, Buthidaung. Over the past year and a half, Magbul worked intermittently as forced labor on the construction of a major highway across Akyab district. Beginning in Akyab City and stretching to Taungbru, near Fokirabazar in Kyandaung near the Bangladesh border, the nearly finished tarmac road is four lanes wide.
Magbul saw many of his fellow workers die of mistreatment, beatings, exhaustion and malnutrition on the road crews. Water is not supplied to the workers: he once saw a laborer ask a soldier for a drink, then watched the soldier urinate in a cup and give it to him. Magbul has gone as long as seven days on the work crews without being allowed to steal away for a drink from a stream or pond. Forced to bring and carry food supplies from their own homes for the soldier guards, the only food the workers are allowed is a tiny portion per day from the rice and greens they bring. At night the workers had to sleep under guard on the road they were building.
A friend of Magbul's, Abu Sidiq, also worked on the highway. "I never escaped," he said. "They said the families of anyone who escaped would all be killed." A few times he was allowed to go back to his village of Kapurdaung in Buthidaung for two to three days before reporting back to the road gang.
Case 4
Nur Alam, 30, arrived in Bangladesh from Bawli Bazaar about February 1, 1992. He said in his village, the army chooses forced labor crews from alternating houses, and the village head is responsible for replacing the workers. The previous crew is not released until their replacements are sent. Some of the village heads are Buddhists, others are Muslims, who "belong" to SLORC. Muslims are constantly told they are not Burmese, but from Bangladesh. Once when Nur Alam complained to the village head about how often the soldiers were stealing his chickens, and asked for help, the village head said, "Your father is in Bangladesh. Go ask him for protection."
Shortly before Nur Alam left Burma, soldiers forced over 400 Muslims to work on what Nur Alam called a "useless, filthy pond - so filthy you could walk across it." For twenty days they worked in it: "It was winter, so our hands were freezing, we were exhausted and getting beaten when we slowed down." When the pond was finally clean 20 days later, the government brought out buses of mixed Burmese, city and suburban people, educated and poor, for a photo session to show cooperation in land development.
Case 5
Faruq Ahmad, 35, his wife and three children arrived in Bangladesh with 55 other families around February 2 from Rohingadaung village, Maungdaw. His account was similar to Nur Alam's, above. In his village, the village head is responsible for providing labor crews. When men are abducted house to house for work crews, they are not released again until a new crew is sent. Crews of eight sent by the village head receive an eight-day term of duty; crews taken by force have an indefinite term. Also, if the village head fails to provide an alternate crew of eight men, he must himself pay a fine of 50 Kyat (US$8) per man not provided.
Faruq worked in forced labor for as long as 25 days at a time. He received about a cup of cooked rice twice daily. Work shifts are from 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon, with a half hour to cook their own rice (brought from their homes) and eat it, whether it is finished cooking or not. When workers' own rice runs out, it is provided. The men are forced to work from 12:30 p.m. again, and at 8:00 p.m. they have another half-hour to eat. Work resumes until midnight, at which point workers are made to lie on the spot they stopped working, without cover.
Case 6
Dil Mohammad, 27, from Naikaengdaung village, Buthidaung, arrived in Bangladesh in September 1991 together with his mother and four sisters. His village had approximately 370 families about the time of the 1990 national elections, and most people in the area supported Aung San Suu Kyi. Shortly after the election, massive construction projects were begun by the military with forced labor on Muslim land. "This is not your land, it is ours," they were told by the military in charge. "You are Bangladeshi tourists with foreign identification and you don't own land." The housing was said to be for military families at first, but soon the units were full of non-Muslim Burmese from the cities.
Dil Mohammad had been abducted for road and housing construction many times over the past two years. Sometimes he would be held as long as three months without a break, allowed only a handful of cooked rice once a day. He was forced to work in what had been cultivated Muslim fields, building roads and housing for the urban Burmese newcomers. When they were allowed to stop work late at night, the laborers were forced to sleep under guard, in mud and cow dung.
Seven months ago his father, while serving as forced labor, was publicly beaten to death as an example for all the villagers to see. Dil Mohammad was left as the head of his household. He had witnessed women being brought by force to the camp regularly, and when one of his sisters was raped by soldiers, he decided to bring his family to Bangladesh.
Case 7
Mohammadullah was a village headman in Taungbru, Maungdaw who arrived in Bangladesh late last year. As village head, he had continually been obliged to recruit and supply forced laborers from among his fellow Muslims.
One day about one year ago, while at the bazaar with his son-in-law, he was confronted by soldiers. They demanded he turn over a crew of forced workers, and he refused. Then they said they would take Mohammadullah himself; he resisted. One of them, a SLORC officer and former policeman in the district, named Bulachi, fired one round from a light machine gun into Mohammadullah's left side. The bullet passed through and came to a stop in the chest of his son-in-law, injuring them both badly. They were left in the bazaar by the soldiers.
The son-in-law was not well enough to travel when Mohammadullah decided to flee to Bangladesh but has since recovered and is still in Burma. Mohammadullah has a three-by-eight-inch depressed scar from the bullet wound in his side.
We grow food for SPDC
Case 1
Border Security Force forcibly buys paddy from farmers
by Kaladanpress
Friday, 30 November 2007
Buthidaung, Arakan State: Burma’s border Security Force--- has been forcibly purchasing paddy from the farmers through their agents at low prices, said a trader of the locality.
The Nasaka Area No. (9) has been using two Nasaka agents namely Ayub (40), son of Kamal and Abdu Samat (55) to buy paddy from farmers of Buthidaung northern side. Both Nasaka agents belong to Paungdaw Pyin Village in Buthidaung Township .
They (agents) were paid by Nasaka (Burma's Border Security Force) in advance for buying paddy from local farmers at a fixed price, which is decided by the Nasaka to monopolize the farmers. The Nasaka gives kyat 120,000 to 130,000 per 100 Taungs (One Taung =13 kg) while 100 Taungs is being sold in the open market for kyat 150,000 to 160,000, said villagers.
Local farmers don't wish to sell paddy to the Nasaka agents at low prices, but afraid of being punished farmers sell to them.
Now the harvest season is on for farmers, so the Nasaka is eager to buy paddy from farmers at cheap rates for their ration.
Earlier, the ruling junta declared that they would not buy paddy from the farmers. But, now, they have broken their promise.
This year, paddy yield has been less because of bad weather and frequent flooding. At harvest time, a kilogram of rice is being sold for kyat 500 in Buthidaung Township, according to farmers.
Case 2
Kaladan News
August 29, 2008
Nasaka collects high taxes for goods
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Nasaka Burma's border security force has been heavily taxing goods during loading at the jetty built by Nasaka on the Purma River flowing to Naff River across Bawli Bazaar market in Maungdaw Township, said a local trader on condition of anonymity.
The Pruma River is useful to traders, as it connects northern and southern Maungdaw town by water way. Therefore, the Nasaka collects a huge amount of money from taxes on goods.
Nasaka is collecting tax from traders leaving the market with goods loaded from the jetty built by Nasaka on the bank of Pruma River near Bawli Bazaar market.
The Nasaka collects Kyat 500 for the Customs, Kyat 200 for Sarapa (Military Intelligence), Kyat 200 for the police and Kyat 100 for bidders who bid for the jetty for a year. The traders have to pay to the Nasaka Kyat 1,000 as tax for a 50 kg rice bag. Taxed thus, traders have to sell the rice at a high price.
The jetty was built three years ago at Nasaka's cost for local traders, but collecting heavy tax from goods is creating problems for local traders and consumers.
The Nasaka does not collect tax from the goods when it comes to the market, but does so from goods which are transported to other places from Bawli Bazaar market, said a trader
Case 3
Kaladan News
September 8, 2008
Burma's security force bent on seizing 16 acres from widow in Rathedaung
Rathedaung, Arakan State: Burma's border security force, or Nasaka has been trying to seize 16 acres of land from a widow in Rathedaung Township since August 27.
The widow, Noor Jahan (50), wife of late Md. Kasim, hails from Koe Dan Kauk (Donesay Para) village in Rathedaung Township.
She owns 16 acres of land including paddy fields and a shrimp dam in Koe Tan Kauk village.
The commander of Nasaka outpost camp No.21 of Nasaka area No.9 ordered Noor Jahan on August 27, to relocate her house. But, she did not comply with the order.
Later, she brought the matter to the notice of the Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC) and Land Survey Department in Rathedaung Township. Both the departments asked the Nasaka not to confiscate the land and that she has necessary documents showing ownership of the land. But, the Nasak did not pay any heed and is still bent on seizing the land for business purposes.
Nasaka has already destroyed her shrimp dam by draining out water and looting all the shrimps.
The land owner Noor Jahan drew the attention of the Nasaka Headquarters in Gyikan Pyin (Kawarbill) in Maungdaw Township. The decision on the issue will be taken by and by but most people believe that the Nasaka will have its way.
Nasaka and other concerned authorities in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung Townships have already seized many acres of land from the Rohingya community including shrimp dams for business.
As part of its campaign to eliminate Rohingyas, the SPDC has taken the initiative to repopulate northern Arakan with Burmans. The lands, which Rohingyas have cultivated, are being confiscated. Muslims are gradually losing land and becoming landless.
