The Myanmar
army gang-raped Rohingya women, teen aged girls and arbitrarily arrested about
100 men in Lu Ban Pyin (Locally called Luti Farang) village of Kyet Yoe Pyin
village track (Locally called KiyariFarang) in northern Maungdaw yesterday.
According to reliable sources, during the day-long siege of three Rohingya
villages, KyetYoePyin (Kiyari Fsrang), NgaSarKyu (NysaFuru) and Oo Shye Kyar
(Bura Shiddar Fara) – by a joint force of the army and the Border Guard Police
(BGP) from 5:00 am MST to until the late evening.
They entered
into the homes saying to search and investigate. When they didn’t find men
present in some homes during the raids, they raped the women there. “As far as
my concerned, they have gang-raped women and teen aged girls in my neighboring
house. They were screaming and crying for help” said a woman who managed to
escape the horror scene. They raped 8 teen aged girls; all of them are 11 to 17
years old, 2 of them are in very critical situation said a reliable source. It
has been learnt that the military are committing rapes and all other crimes
against humanity in disguise of ‘Clearance Operation.’
All the men
been escaped from all those villages to neighboring villages to save their
lives, then to day on 19/11/2016, raided in Ngan Chaung Village track as well.
Arrested about 125 Rohingyas, all of them are escaped peoples from neighboring
villages such as Kyet Yoe Pyin, Pwin Phyu Chaung, Ye Khet Chaung, Myaw Taung
villages.
A Rohingya
man in Kyet Yoe Pyin, namely Anwar, Age 65 years old and sick too, mercilessly beaten
and reportedly suffering very difficult to be breathe, no source to take
treatment.
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| Anwar 65 years old, from Kyet Yoe Pyin, mercilessly beaten by Myanmar Army |
Today in Du
Dan village track of Maungdaw North, Myanmar Army shot dead Mlv. Minhaju Rahman
and Waheda Begum (d/o) Korimullah, (18) years old. According reliable sources 7 peoples shot
there, still to be confirmed. At 3pm MST, a 15-years old girl also taken away
by Myanmar Army, to unknown place, worrying she will be raped then killed.
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| Wahida Begun 18 years old from Du Dan shot dead by Myanmar Army |
“The military ordered us to stay at home cool and calm, not to run away but when we do that, they arbitrary beat arrest every one of us or kill us when we try to escape. What should we do” said a Rohingya man while he is on the run.
Going by the
current trends of the arrests in Maungdaw, the Burmese armed forces simply
arrest random civilians they encounter and declare them to be militants through
the state media and other domestic media under the instructions of the
military.
On this
unfolding situation, a human rights watchdog based in Maungdaw commented "the
army arrests any Rohingya men on sight whether or not they have connections
with the alleged militants in the region. They declare these civilians as
militants through the state media as soon as they are arrested. So they run
away in that fear. When they flee, the army and the BGP get free hands to rape
women to their hearts’ content. I estimate the numbers of Rape Victims could
exceed 150 by now.”
Hundreds of
the innocent civilians have been killed, more than 150 women have been raped,
many hundred peoples have been arrested and many villages have entirely been
destroyed since the army offensive begun on the civilians in northern Maungdaw
by the name of ‘Clearance Operation.’
These
pogroms, mass arrests and rapes are now leading to mass exodus of people
especially to Bangladesh.
Mir Ahmed Siddiqueemir_sidiquee