Myanmar Continues to Demolish Rohingya Homes in Maungdaw
District
By Rohingya Mirror
December 29, 2016
Maungdaw — The Myanmar Border
Guard Police (BGP) continues to demolish Rohingya homes daily across Maungdaw
district since mid-December 2016, reliable reports emerge from Maungdaw.
After burning thousands of
Rohingya homes in northern Maungdaw since October 9, the BGP began to demolish
homes in northern Maungdaw, which later spread to other parts of Maungdaw
district including southern Maungdaw and Buthidaung Township.
The BGP, reportedly acting on
the order by the Rakhine State Chief Minister and the Commander in-Chief of the
BGP, have recently demolished homes in the following villages (besides the
reports on the demolition of homes we have earlier).
In Northern Maungdaw,
I-In LonDoong village on
December 27,
(1) 11 houses and 4 shops were
destroyed at Kyun Gaung hamlet of LonDoong
(2) 15 houses were destroyed at
‘Kyaik Chaung’ hamlet of LonDoong (some 40-year old homes were also destroyed.)
(3) 25 houses were destroyed at
‘Sinthae Pyin’ hamlet of Londoong
(4) 8 houses and 3 shops were
destroyed at ‘Zaydi Pyin’ hamlet of LonDoong
(5) 15 houses were destroyed at
‘Mya Zin’ hamlet of LonDoong.
II- In ‘Sabbay Gone’ village on
December 27,
(1) 8 houses were destroyed.
III- In ‘Taung Pyo Lat Ya’ on
December 26,
(1) 3 houses were destroyed.
IV- In ‘Thayet Oak’ village on
December 25,
1- 6 houses were destroyed.
V- In ‘Kyauk Pyin Seik’ village
on December 26,
(1) 25 houses and 15 shops were
ordered to be destroyed.
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In Southern Maungdaw,
I-In the village of ‘Padin’ on
December 26,
(1) 11 houses and 6 shops
(II) In the village of ‘Du Nyaung
Pin Gyi’ on December 26, 5 houses were destroyed.
After continuously demolishing
homes in the rural areas, the BGP has handed further lists of homes to be
destroyed over to the administrators of the respective Rohingya villages in the
outskirts of the downtown of Maungdaw.
Hundreds of Rohingya homes have
been demolished in the Buthidaung Township in the recent weeks.
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The houses and shops being
destroyed in the rural villages are not modern buildings that require
officials’ permission(s) but traditional country-type structures built of
bamboos and woods and covered with ‘Nipa Palm Leaves.’ These widespread
destructions of homes are now seen among the locals as yet another attempt of
cleansing their (i.e. Rohingya) population through systematic displacement of
the people.
The order to demolish homes had
only been imposed on the Rohingya community, not on the Rakhine Buddhist
community.