Burmese Navy
Open Fire at Rohingya Boats
Maungdaw —
The Burmese Navy opened fires at two paddle-boats (canoes) carrying some
Rohingya people — fleeing the army killings at their villages in northern
Maungdaw — on board in the Naff River around 9 PM last night (on November 15
night), a reliable source reported.
A boatful of
people numbering 7 are believed to have died as their boat was hit by bullets
and subsequently capsized in the river.
The Navy
caught the second boat and investigated the people on board. Post that, the
navy took off the paddles from the boat and set it adrift towards the sea.
As luck
would have it, they encountered a fishing boat just at the mouth of the Bay of
Bengal after floating in the river for hours. The fishing boat saved them,
according to a statement from a surviving victim.
Many numbers
of people are fleeing from the military assaults in Maungdaw to Bangladesh by
boats. However, not all of them manage to reach to Bangladesh but get
disappeared in the Naff River. Unfortunately, these losses of lives go
unreported most of the times.
Note: we
withhold the identities and the names of the villages of the surviving victims
for their safety.