Nighttime curfew imposed in five townships in Arakan

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Myanmar Government led by Aung San Suu Kyi to impose curfew in five townships in Arakan on the ground of ongoing clashes between the Arakan Army and Myanmar Army on 2.3.2019. Therefore, partnership with cruel war criminal Myanmar Army, Government of Myanmar led by Aung San Suu Kyi imposed a curfew in line along with section 144 in five townships in northern Arakan.

In northern Arakan, there are (30000) internally displaced persons who had to flee

from their village to IDPs camps because of notorious Myanmar Army’s killing, persecuting and threatening. Myanmar Army shelled every village in northern Arakan on the accusation of being tied with Arakan Army and raiding every village in daylight hours. 

Shooting, looting and abducting villagers, Myanmar Army used to commit war crime in Arakan. Now, they have more opportunity to commit war crimes in the night also by imposing curfew in five townships.

Due to curfew, no civilian can travel from village to village and within wards of towns in the night. Myanmar Army can only move from place to place. Even if villagers suffer from disease seriously at night, they cannot go to hospital and they are not provided ambulance.

Even in daylight, Myanmar Army has done arson to Arakanese villages and then they were killing, looting and abducting Arakanese people. However, Myanmar Army falsified from its media to people by giving misinformation that they did not commit anything. 

If  Myanmar Army set fire a village at night after it imposed a curfew,  no villager of other villages will not be able to receive information in time correctly because villagers cannot travel but only Myanmar Army can.

Oo Hla Saw, an ANP leader and Rakhine National lawmaker who represents Mrauk-U in Myanmar’s lower house of parliament, told RFA that local authorities did not state a reason for the curfew when they announced it publicly in his township.

Arakan Army(AA )spokesperson Khine Thukha said the curfew will pose difficulties for organizations that are providing assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and limit their workers’ movement in the region.

“We think the move could lead to the worst instead of advancing to peace,” he said. “The Myanmar Army has been sending reinforcements both in weapons and manpower, so we can see signs that larger ‘rooting-out’ operations are underway following the curfew order.”