Arakan News Agency
The Muslims of the Rohingya minority in Arakan state, besieged by the Myanmar security forces, who are suffering from kidnappings and killings, say that fear has become their daily bread.
Last week, the Myanmar authorities permitted the media to enter certain areas of the state in the northwest, for the first time since security forces launched a month-long operation in the state.
UN investigators suspect the operation could amount to “ethnic cleansing” after more than 75,000 Rohingya minority who fled to Bangladesh to escape the security crackdown, reported mass rape, murder and arson.
Villagers told reporters in the presence of Myanmar border guards who organized the visit in villages where many of their people fled, adding that violence and insecurity were on the rise.
“Our husbands are fleeing,” says a woman from the Rohingya minority who asked not to be identified for security reasons. They left because they are afraid of the border police. ”
“They burned our house,” she said. We don’t have a house or what to eat. Our husbands are hiding somewhere. ”
The United Nations fears hundreds of people are killed in what could be the bloodiest chapter in the country’s Buddhist-majority history of the minority Muslim Rohingya.
The Muslim Rohingya minority is seen as a group of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Many Rohingya families say their ancestors have lived in the area for generations.
