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Buddhists to Rohingya: Leave, or we will kill you all
[Iran Press TV] Thousands of Rohingya Moslems in northwestern Myanmar are pleading for safe passage from two remote villages besieged by Buddhist bully boys.Media reports said the situation was particularly dire in the village of Ah Nauk Pyin and the nearby Naung Pin Gyi, where any escape route to neighboring Bangladesh is long and arduous. Maung Maung, a Rohingya official in Ah Nauk Pyin, said the villagers were resigned to leaving, but authorities had not responded to their requests for security. "We’ll starve soon and they’re threatening to burn down our houses," he told Rooters by telephone. "We’re terrified." Another Rohingya, who asked not to be named, said bully boy Buddhists came to the same village and chanted, "Leave, or we will kill you all." Elsewhere in his remarks, Maung Maung, said he had called Myanmar's police at least 30 times to report threats against his village. On September 13, the Rohingya official said he had received a call from a Rakhine villager he knew. "Leave tomorrow or we’ll come and burn down all your houses," the man on the phone had said. When the Rohingya official protested that they had no means to escape, the man replied, "That’s not our problem." Maung Maung also said the village elders had sent a letter to Rathedaung authorities on September 7, asking to be moved to "another place". They had yet to receive a response, he said. On August 31, Myanmar's police convened a roadside meeting between the two villages. Rohingya residents who attended the meeting said that instead of addressing the Rohingya complaints, the Rakhine officials delivered an ultimatum. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-18 |
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