By RVision TV
April 9, 2017
Maungdaw — The
Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP) has recently issued arrest warrants for more
than hundreds of Rohingya youths in northern Maungdaw in alleged connection
with the rebels in the region, it has been reported.
The BGP from the
Camp 12 based at the village of ‘YweNyoTaung’ have issued the warrants
considered as arbitrary by the human rights observers for the following number
of youths from the following villages.
(1) 105 from the
village of ‘YeKhaeChaungKhwaSone’ locally known as ‘Bor Gozi Bil.’
(2) 69 from the
village of ‘YeDwinChaung’ locally known as ‘Raimma Bil’
(3) 59 from the
village of ‘KyarGaungTaung’ locally known as ‘Rabailla’
U Aye Myint, a human
rights observer based in Maungdaw while speaking to Rohingya Vision, said “this
is a list of targeted arbitrary warrants issued aiming to reduce the numbers of
the Rohingya youths including underage teenagers in the Arakan state. As a
result, many youths in the region have been living in their hideouts for past
few days in fear of arbitrary arrests.”
According to the
accounts narrated by the locals, in 2012 and after, the Myanmar authorities
systematically forced hundreds of Rohingya youths in Maungdaw and Buthidaung to
flee from the country by issuing arbitrary arrest warrants against them after
accusing them of involving in the June-2012 violence.