By RVision TV Correspondent | March 4, 2017
Maungdaw: The Myanmar authorities have increased the
abuses on the Rohingya people in Maungdaw Township as they refuse to accept NV
Card (National Verification Card or NVC), it has been reported.
During a meeting held last Friday (on Mar 3), the
Maungdaw District authorities ordered the Rohingya representatives to take NV
Cards and also distributed leaflets written in three languages – Myanmar,
English and Bengali — describing the so-called benefits of possessing the NV
Cards. Read: Myanmar Gov’t Tempts Rohingyas for NVC
with Ludicrous Leaflets: https://goo.gl/bCK58L
On Sunday (Mar 5), the BGP (Border Guard Police) and the
other immigration authorities held two separate meetings with the local
Rohingyas at Sinthaepyin hamlet (Haanti Fara) of ‘Londoong’ village and at
‘Sabbay Gone (Haazir Bil)’ in northern Maungdaw and threatened them to accept
the NV Cards.
Upon failures to convince the locals at Sinthaepyin
village about the NV Cards, the authorities went rampant afterwards the
meeting. They beat up the locals and also arrested an innocent teenager,
Shomsul Alam (son of) Noor Alam, on an arbitrary accusation.
It has been learnt that since March 5, the BGP in the
‘Londoong’ camp and other camps have begun arresting people and motorcycle-taxi
riders arbitrarily while crossing their check-posts and extorting money from
them. They have also been forcing people to get off from their motorcycles and
go past the check-posts by pushing their motorcycles.
“They have forced us to get off from our motorcycle and
forced us to cross the check-post while pushing our motorcycle. It was
difficult and almost for three minutes. While we were made to push our
motorcycles, they were laughing at us”, said one Rohingya man of the experience
he faced while crossing the ‘Londoong’ check-post yesterday (on Mar 5).
Also this afternoon, the in-charge of the BGP camp at
‘Kyar Gaung Taung (Rabailla)’ village arrived at ‘Zin Paing Nya (Zamoinna)’
village, a village partially burnt down by the Myanmar military during
October-November 2016, and accused the villagers of killing three Rakhine men
and hiding their dead bodies.
“The Rabailla BGP Camp in-charge arrived at our village
and said they got information that the villagers killed three Rakhies and hid
their dead bodies in the village. He threatened the villagers show him where
the dead bodies are. Else, he would take serious against us. We are really
worried. They could trigger attacks on us again”, said a worried villager while
speaking to Rohingya Vision TV on the condition of anonymity.
The Rohingya people as a whole categorically reject the
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 and deny them their
full rights as citizens.
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