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09/17/2017 05:21 pm ET
Rohingya Muslims Beg Myanmar Authorities For Safe Passage
“We’re terrified. We’ll starve soon and they’re threatening to burn down our houses,” one villager told Reuters.
SITTWE, Myanmar, Sept 17 (Reuters) – Thousands of Rohingya Muslims
in violence-racked northwest Myanmar are pleading with authorities for
safe passage from two remote villages that are cut off by hostile
Buddhists and running short of food.
“We’re terrified,” Maung Maung, a Rohingya official at Ah Nauk Pyin
village, told Reuters by telephone. “We’ll starve soon and they’re
threatening to burn down our houses.”
Another Rohingya contacted by Reuters, who asked not to be named,
said ethnic Rakhine Buddhists came to the same village and shouted,
“Leave, or we will kill you all.”
Fragile relations between Ah Nauk Pyin and its Rakhine neighbors
were shattered on Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by Rohingya militants in
Rakhine State prompted a ferocious response from Myanmar’s security
forces.
At least 430,000 Rohingya have since fled into neighboring
Bangladesh to evade what the United Nations has called a “textbook
example of ethnic cleansing.”
About a million Rohingya lived in Rakhine State until the recent
violence. Most face draconian travel restrictions and are denied
citizenship in a country where many Buddhists regard them as illegal
immigrants from Bangladesh.
Tin Maung Swe, secretary of the Rakhine State government, told
Reuters he was working closely with the Rathedaung authorities, and had
received no information about the Rohingya villagers’ plea for safe
passage.
“There is nothing to be concerned about,” he said when asked about local tensions. “Southern Rathedaung is completely safe.”
National police spokesman Myo Thu Soe said he also had no
information about the Rohingya villages but that he would look into the
matter.
Asked to comment, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department’s East
Asia Bureau made no reference to the situation in the villages, but
said the United States was calling “urgently” for Myanmar’s security
forces “to act in accordance with the rule of law and to stop the
violence and displacement suffered by individuals from all communities.”
“Tens of thousands of people reportedly lack adequate food, water,
and shelter in northern Rakhine State,” spokeswoman Katina Adams said.
“The government should act immediately to assist them.”
Adams said Patrick Murphy, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of
state for East Asia, would reiterate grave U.S. concern about the
situation in Rakhine when he meets senior officials in Myanmar this
week.Britain is to host a ministerial meeting on Monday on the sidelines
of the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York to discuss the
situation in Rakhine.
Cathal McNaughton / Reuters
Rohingya cross a swollen river at a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, September 17, 2017.
NO BOATS
Ah Nauk Pyin sits on a mangrove-fringed peninsula in Rathedaung, one
of three townships in northern Rakhine State. The villagers say they
have no boats.
Until three weeks ago, there were 21 Muslim villages in Rathedaung,
along with three camps for Muslims displaced by previous bouts of
religious violence. Sixteen of those villages and all three camps have
since been emptied and in many cases burnt, forcing an estimated 28,000
Rohingya to flee.
Rathedaung’s five surviving Rohingya villages and their 8,000 or so
inhabitants are encircled by Rakhine Buddhists and acutely vulnerable,
say human rights monitors.
The situation is particularly dire in Ah Nauk Pyin and nearby Naung
Pin Gyi, where any escape route to Bangladesh is long, arduous, and
sometimes blocked by hostile Rakhine neighbors.
Maung Maung, the Rohingya official, said the villagers were resigned
to leaving but the authorities had not responded to their requests for
security. At night, he said, villagers had heard distant gunfire.
“It’s better they go somewhere else,” said Thein Aung, a Rathedaung
official, who dismissed Rohingya allegations that Rakhines were
threatening them.
Only two of the Aug. 25 attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation
Army (ARSA) took place in Rathedaung. But the township was already a
tinderbox of religious tension, with ARSA citing the mistreatment of
Rohingya there as one justification for its offensive.
In late July, Rakhine residents of a large, mixed village in
northern Rathedaung corraled hundreds of Rohingya inside their
neighborhood, blocking access to food and water.
A similar pattern is repeating itself in southern Rathedaung, with
local Rakhine citing possible ARSA infiltration as a reason for ejecting
the last remaining Rohingya.
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