Arakan News Agency
Burmese authorities have recently intensified the checkpoints on the streets, exits and entrances and the joints of the main roads in the cities where there is a concentrated presence of Rohingya in Arakan like Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathidaung as the correspondent of the ANA said, adding that authorities have exercised many acts of abuses and repression against the Rohingyas over these checkpoints.
Also said that there are more than 30 checkpoints for inspection are distributed in different areas, adding that the inspection soldiers forced Rohingya girls while passing these points to take off the full veil and take off the headscarves, while forced men to abandon their money and property in exchange for passage through these points and perhaps sometimes demanding extradition temporary identity cards known as white cards. He said that the areas where little or no presence of Rohingya often devoid of checkpoints.
It is noteworthy that the Burmese authorities have imposed a curfew on many Rohingya towns and villages in Arakan since the events of sectarian violence that broke out in 2012; and in order to starve the Rohingya by imposing an economic blockade on them, as well as to prevent them from engaging in any activity or manual work to earn their living.
