By RVision TV Correspondent | February 11, 2017
Rathedaung – The Myanmar armed forces have besieged the
village of ‘Koetankauk’ and begun to force the villagers to accept the National
Verification Cards also known as NVC at gun points, a reliable source has
reported.
At around 9:30 AM today, trucks loads of the Myanmar
military and the Border Guard Police (BGP) arrived from wards Maungdaw have
besieged ‘Koetankauk’, and been rounding up and beating up the Rohingya people,
regardless of men or women, the source has added.
The barbaric action of the Myanmar military are leaving
the villagers terrified.
The Rohingyas categorically reject NVC as it is meant to
issue to the foreigners recently arrived in Myanmar and valid for only two
years. Therefore, accepting these cards will automatically deprive the Rohingya
people of their indigenous status with the identity ‘Rohingya,’ disqualify
their citizenship rights by birth.
The Koetankauk is a village in Rathedaung Township, where
the Border Guard Police and the Military tortured the villagers inhumanely
during a three-day siege from November 5 to November 7. A shocking video has
recently emerged on ‘Facebook and Whatsapp Messaging App’ of the Myanmar Border
Guard Police (BGP) brutally torturing dozens of Rohingya Civilians, while
rounding them up during the raid.