Arakan News Agency
The Myanmar government has begun to build government departments and settlements for Buddhists in Arakan state by using funds and workers from Rohingya minority without any wages in places where the Rohingya were forced to leave as a result of the military crackdown launched last October.
Arakan news agency correspondent reported that government authorities in the city of Maungdaw in Arakan state confiscated large amounts of Rohingya funds and started to build government buildings and settlements to house the Rakhine Buddhists on the lands and villages of the Rohingya who fled the army’s crackdown since October last year.
“The government uses the Rohingyas in the town as forced laborers to build these buildings, and workers bring wood from the mountains and carry construction tools on their backs without any wage.”
