Maungdaw – The Burmese Border Guard (BGP) Police begins to
destroy the brick-walls of ancient Islamic University at Nurullah village in
southern Maungdaw today, a reliable source reports.
They have started breaking the walls at 11 am and continue
to destroy it up until now and threatened that they would further destroy the
mosque and other university buildings.
The commander of the BGP at ‘Maggyi Chaung’ camp and his
team arrived at Nuruallah village this morning ordered some 40 forced labors
from the village. The administrator of the village arrived with 30 people and
the BGP ordered them to destroy the brick-walls.
“He said ‘you should not have come empty-handed. Go and get
hammers and other tools to destroy the walls of the university’”, said a local
Rohingya at Nurullah, “when we refused, he said ‘you don’t need to destroy by
yourself. You just need to ACT for PHOTOSHOOTS.’ Yet, we refused and they have
started destroying by themselves.”
The local Muslims express their fear that later, the Burmese
state media will later accuse them (the locals) of destroying the university
walls and buildings.
The joint forces of the Burmese military and BGP have killed
more than 500 civilians, arbitrarily arrested more than 1,000 villagers, raped
at least 100 women and burnt down more than 3,500 homes including MOSQUES
displacing at 50,000 people in northern Maungdaw in the pretext of ‘Clearance
Operation’ or the Hunt-Down on the alleged militants responsible for October 9
raids on three BGP posts.
[Edited by M.S. Anwar]