Arakan News Agency
The Myanmar military forced “Mrs. Saminara Rehmat Karim” to flee to Bangladesh, after soldiers raided her village in Arakan (west), with a Muslim majority, and they killed her husband by slitting his throat and burned her son to death.
She recounted as refugee in Bangladesh after the Myanmar military stormed her village, she said that “military forces raided our village Hati fara, a subsidiary of the city of Maungdaw, in Arakan about two weeks ago.”
She explained that they were engaged in their usual routine before the raid on the village by army and caused burning of houses and destruction, adding: “we could go out into the market and prayed in the mosque next to continue our social life before the start of the events. But after the attacks, we can not do anything even we were unable to get out of our houses, due to lack of stability, and we were scared of death, in addition to the lack of any guarantee for our lives. “
She pointed to escape from the village during a raid by the Myanmar army, saying: “In the meantime, one of the soldiers threw my son Mohammed Rafique, aged 5 years, in a house that was burning. My son was burned in front of my eyes. “
Her husband, who was working in the field, exposed to attack by the army while he was praying in the rice fields.
And she said: “My husband tried to escape from the soldiers, but they had fired the shots in the air and caught him and cut his neck.
Following that i ran away from persecution to the village of my uncle, which was also witnessing attacks, so we decided to flee to Bangladesh, and we did not walk the roads between forests because the army uses mine, but we used boats across the river and we got to Bangladesh three days ago. “
She concluded: “Now me and my son and my daughter got here, I do not know the fate of my other three children, and why we were attacked by the soldiers?”.
