Maungdaw, Arakan State: A group of Natala villagers have been checking drinking water ponds in Rohingya villages in Maungdaw south, northern Arakan, recently, said a businessman from Aley Than Kyaw.
“In the group – seven persons with long swords, axe and etc.”
The
group have been going to every Rohingya villages to see the ponds and
take some samples of mud from inside the ponds – the villagers use for
drinking water- while villagers went to the spot to see what they were
doing, the group stopped their work quickly, a village elder said from
Maungdaw south.
“The
Natala groups are going on at Udaung village, Khonza Bill village and
other villages of Maungdaw south. The Rohingya villagers also informed
to the concern security force – Nasaka – about the situation, but the
Nasaka didn’t do anything against them.”
“Villagers believe that they (Natala) can provide poison in the ponds,” said a local schoolteacher.
Last
year, some unknown Rakhines community put poison into the ponds in
Buthidaung Township. So, villagers are fear of using water from ponds
right now because it will affect the people, said an elder.
Natala
villagers are very notorious in characters that were brought to Arakan
north to settle them in Arakan by the government to harass the local
Rohingya people and to increase the Buddhist community in the area. Most
of them are murderers, heroine addicted people and who were sentenced
to long term jail.
It
is not concern to the Natala villagers to check the ponds of Rohingya
villagers. There have concerned authorities to do that, if it is
required. It is necessary to inform to the local authorities. Why are
they doing like that? Villagers believe that it is nothing but to
create another problem between Rohingya and Rakhine villagers, said a
Rohingya leader from the locality.
“Why
does the local Nasaka authority (Burma’s border security force) let
them to do that?,” said a Rohingya youth from Maungdaw south.
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