Township
Administration Orders to Demolish Rohingya Homes
Maungdaw – Over a dozen of Rohingya homes in ‘Kamauk Seik’
Township have been demolished under the order of the township administrator in
the last few days.
The township administrator has alleged the villagers of
‘Chong Naphei’ and ‘Aung Thabyay’ of building many homes illegally and
subsequently ordered them to demolish the homes through their respective
village administrators.
Over 19 Rohingya homes have been demolished up until now and
many more likely to be demolished in the coming three days.
“They summon us to the village administration office and order
us to destroy our homes under several arbitrary allegations. They destroyed 4
houses last Saturday (on November 27) alleging that there were two houses under
one household (family).
“‘Is it a good excuse to destroy our homes?’ They are simply
destroying our homes because they can’t burnt them down as it can be seen from
satellites,” said a villager at Aung Thabyay.
The homes were built during the period of Nasaka (the former
Border Security Forces and predecessor of the Border Guard Police) with their permissions
and have been included in all the ‘Household Location Maps’ drawn by the
authorities in every ‘Household Inquiry.’
“They are destroying our homes because they want to force us
to leave our homeland” the villager added.
The houses destroyed at ‘Chong Naphei’ village belong to the
following the people.
No Name Father
1 Sayed Hussein Mohammed Nasim
2 Abul Hussein Mohammed Nasim
3 Zahid Hussein Mohammed
4 Rafiq Mohammed
5 Abdu Shafi Sayed Hussein
6 Ali johar Asho Zama
7 Kamal Mukhtar Ahmed
8 Ayub Mukhtar Ahmed
9 Lalaya Siddique Ahmed
10 Abu Taher Shomshu
11 Abu Toyub Shomshu
12 Nooruz Zaman Ishaaque
13 Mohamed Toyub Bashir
14 Noor Alam Abdul Matlib
15 Murshid Alam Zafar
16 Noor Alam Noju Meah
17 Ma Sajida Abdu Shafi
18 Khairul Amin Sayedul Amin
19 Jahangir Alam Abdul Manaf
Notes:Similarly, the administrator has ordered to destroy all
sub-homes or separate homes that fall under single family/household list in the
areas of ‘Regional Commands 1 and 2.’
(1) Kamauk Seik Township is a newly formed township in
northern Maungdaw under Maungdaw District.
(2) Household Inquiry is a kind of population census
specially designed for Rohingya and conducted twice every year since early
1990s.