Military Forced Rohingya to Farm during Day and Guard Villages at night

By Rohingya Vision TV Correspondents | 29^th August 2018

Buthidaung: The Burmese military forced Rohingya from approximately four to five village tracks to work as laborers during the day and as security guards at night, made them restless to leave their home and travel towards Bangladesh.

In Mee Kyaung Zay, Dar Bin Sara, Maung Gyi Taung, and Khin Tha Ma village tracts of northern Buthidaung, the government ordered that all males work as guards with ropes, knives, and sticks by giving their usual excuse of threats from Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) in the region.

“Again and again they simply take ARSA’a name and use it as an excuse, whenever they want to make the remaining Rohingya suffer,” explains a Rohingya from one of the village tracks.

7In the same village tracks, they forced all males above the age of 15 to work in the areas of 564 and 552 military Battalion as forced labor.

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After two-thirds from those village tracks were forced to flee towards Bangladesh in late 2017, nearly 700 Rohingya families are still residing up to date.

Now the same villagers have to guard the villages at night and work in the military fields during the daytime, leaving them restless to leave the region.

“How can we live here in this condition, both at day and night we have to work for them without payment? Now we can neither rest nor earn for our families,” explains a Rohingya in despair.

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Earlier INGOs and agencies from northern Buthidaung Township were barred from food distribution to Rohingya in 32 villages who are facing intolerable starving conditions.

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