Arakan News Agency
Myanmar authorities have arrested Aung Zaw Win, a former member of parliament and a member of Myanmar’s minority Muslim Rohingya minority, according to the British newspaper The Guardian.
The newspaper said in a report on its website on Monday that this step is part of the continued escalation by the authorities in Myanmar against the Rohingya community in the country, and explained that “Aung Zaw Win,” a former deputy of the Parliament of the Union of Solidarity and Development Party, A real estate magnate, was arrested at Yangon International Airport at the end of last week ahead of a business trip to Bangkok.
Aung Zaw Win is still being held at the Mingaladon police station, near Yangon airport, and despite his five-day detention that has not yet been questioned.
“The government and the military want to send a message to all Rohingyas living and working in Yangon, they also under threat, they want to destroy the entire Rohingya community, not just those in Arakan,” said Rohingya activist Nay San Lwin. 2017, thousands of minority Muslims have been liquidated and more than 680,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh over the past six months due to violence in Arakan, Myanmar.
