More Rohingya Civilians Arrested by Military in Northern
Maungdaw
By Rohingya Eye | December 25,
2016
Maungdaw — six more Rohingya
civilians were arrested by the Myanmar military at the village of ‘Ye Dwin
Chaung’ in northern Maungdaw on Friday (Dec 23), reliable sources have
reported.
Of the six people arrested at
Ye Dwin Chaung, three were displaced people from neighboring villages taking
refuge in their relatives’ homes (in the village of Ye Dwin Chaung) after their homes had been burnt down by the
military earlier. Other three were locals of the village found and arrested
while working in a fishery pond.
The military launched a raid on
the village, Ye Dwin Chaung locally known as Kuwar Bil, at around 5 am on
Friday and subsequently began to force the men gather at the village’s
religious school and the women along with children at the government school.
“The military tortured many
village men including those six people arrested. And the women were molested”,
said a man from the region, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The military further checked
the Family Registration lists of the villagers and released them from the siege
at around 4:30 pm on Friday.
Nothing has been heard of the
six village people since they were arrested and taken to unknown location. Fear
among the locals seems that they would be labeled as militants, tortured and
arbitrarily sentenced to long-term imprisonments.