Myanmar’s Rakhine State Government has announced that seven people were injured in gunfire with no casualties in a violence that involved a group of Bengalis who had burned down a police outpost on August 9 following a dispute of a person who died from drowning in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine.
The incident erupted in morning after a row between police members and a crowd of 500 Bengalis over the body of a 34-year-old Bengali man found at a creek near Ohndawgyi village in Sittwe.
The Bengalis burned down Chaungwa police outpost and three camps formerly used by security forces near the village and took things from the camps with them on that day. And they managed to cut the connection between Ohndawgyi and Bawdupha relief camp by destroying the road. The police and army troops could not reach the relief camp as the route had been cut.
“The security situation there could get worse because of the [Bengalis’] incident. I think they did this because they know Quintana [Tomás Ojea Quintana, the United Nations Special Rapporteur] would be visiting soon. Does one should deter a normal police procedure? They seemed to do this to make Rakhine ethnic people unbearable. Rakhine people will only accept [them] if they don’t make any hostile act. They seemed to do this to make the Rakhine people lose trust in them,” said Win Myaing, the secretary for Rakhine State’s Information and Records Subcommittee.
Security situation there is still fragile as Bengalis are likely to make attacks though the security forces are beefed up there.
THERE,S NO ETHNIC GROUP CALLED “ROHINGYA” IN MYANMAR-
YANGON – Eight people were arrested on Friday after Bengali (Rohingya )Muslims burned down two police outposts in Sittwe in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, officials said.
“Two police outposts near Ohnetaw Gyi village were burned by the angry Bengalis,” said a state government official who asked to remain anonymous.
“Police arrested eight Bengalis for the arson.”
Myanmar people refer to the “Rohingya” Muslims as “Bengalis,” to indicate that they are descendants of settlers from neighbouring Bangladesh.
Earlier, about 1,000 Rohingya had demanded police hand over the body of a BENGALI ,Rohingya woman who had allegedly drowned on Wednesday in a stream near Ohnetaw Gyi village, about 500 kilometres northwest of Yangon.
Police “were carrying [the body] to the police station when the Bengalis surrounded them,” the Rakhine government official said in a telephone interview.
Police fired warning shots into the air, “but there were too many of them so a clash happened and two of them were injured”, said a local police officer, who also asked to remain anonymous.
The angry mob responded by burning down the two police outposts.
The Rohingya were made stateless by the 1982 Citizens Act, which refused to recognise them as an we have no term “rohingya”, only burmese muslim_ “ indigenous ethnic group”. There are an estimated 800,000 Rohingyas living in the northern part of the Rakhine state, means 94 %,which borders Bangladesh
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By: Kyaw H Aung
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