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| A mosque is seen in a Muslim
community within a market area of Maungdaw town located in Myanmar's strife-torn Rakhine State near the Bangladesh border on December 2, 2016. Photo: Khine Htoo Mrat/AFP |
Maungdaw District General
Administration Department made an announcement on February 9 that the
dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed in Maungdaw under Section 144 of the Criminal
Procedural Code has been shortened to 9 pm from previous 7 pm.
The announcement shortened
the curfew order imposed in Maungdaw from the previous 7 pm to 6 am to the
current 9 pm to 5 am.
The announcement still
imposes restriction of assembly on five or more people in public places, main
streets, roads, lanes, orchards and gardens.
Maungdaw District General
Administration Department imposed the dusk-to-dawn curfew on December 9, 2016
under Section 144 of Criminal Procedural Code with criminal miscellaneous case
No. 2/2016 and then it was revised this week under Section 144 of the Criminal
Procedural Code.
The order is valid for two
months starting from February 9.
This curfew was imposed in
Maungdaw after the No. 1 Police Border Guard Command (HQ) and two other Police
Border Guard outposts were attacked simultaneously in coordinated attacks on
October 9, 2016.