Arakan News Agency
Reporter of Arakan state news agency reported that border guards with the support of the army in Myanmar surrounded the village of Hawarbil in northern Maungdaw of Arakan State, and arrested 15 Rohingyas, including children, in an arbitrary manner without any charge, the Rohingya detainees were rushed to a unknown military location.
According to a local source the mayor of the town, who happens to be a Buddhist informed the families of the detainees that these arrests going on and come in retaliation for the attacks suffered by the police stations in the Oct. 9, killing four soldiers and nine police officers, and wounded several others and which led to Myanmar troops mounting on innocent Rohingya civilians by killing thousands of them and arresting hundreds.
It is noteworthy that the current crisis of the Rohingya also witnessed 50 thousand of them fleeing to Bangladesh amid accounts of atrocities committed by Myanmar soldiers of gang rape, killing and burning of houses and arbitrary arrests which may amounted to crimes against Humanity.
