The mask on the face of Myanmar Human Rights commission was removed and was seen as a very ugly ogre when it accepted Myanmar
military statement and it denied that Myanmar Military had abducted 19 Arakanese
villagers from Timma village, KyaukTaw Township in Arakan, nine months ago.
Family members of missing villagers overheard
and got clues that their beloved were forced to work in the Myanmar military
camp but some people believe that on the evidence of Myanmar Army’s recent atrocity,
it was likely to be that Myanmar Army had massacred (19) villagers and it disposes
of them somewhere else.
Even if the commission did not conduct
investigation due to the Myanmar Army’s restriction not to do so, it became unilaterally to accept Myanmar Army’s
denial statement.
Nine of
the original group of 18 villagers were abducted from Tin Ma New village on
March 13, while the other 10 from Tin Ma Gyi village were arrested by Myanmar troops
on March 16 — all on suspicions of having ties to the Arakan Army. The body of
one of them, Maung Win, was discovered two months later in the Kaladan River,
riddled with bullet holes.
Tun Thein, whose brother-in-law Aung
Nyunt and brother Aung Tha Pan are among the missing villagers, said he and
others are concerned that soldiers may have killed the men.
“We want to know if they are still alive or not,” he said. “That’s why we tried to file the case at the Kyauktaw Myoma Police Station.” But a police officer there told Tun Thein that the relatives would have to file a complaint with the military, not the police.
“The police should have accepted the missing person cases,” Tun Thein
said. “We have evidence.” Reported RFA media.
Local Media Narinjara News earlier reported that a
group of people approached the officer of Kyauktaw Myoma police station at around
3:30 pm on 8 December to file a case of 21 missing villagers, but the police officer
denied it and even threatened them with arrest.
And also a 63-year-old woman
has gone to complain about her missing husband after the abduction by Myanmar
troops to the police station to file a case about her beloved husband who went
missing in March 2020 but the police officer again denied and threatened of her
arresting, Narinjara News reported.
Family
members of the missing villagers said they have evidence that the Myanmar military
abducted their relatives and the soldiers involved wore uniforms with the
insignia of Myanmar Army Division No. 55.
An
abductee’s wife 63-year-old woman said her husband was arrested before her eyes
while he was having foods at home in Tinma village
under Kyauktaw township. The Burmese army personnel took him to their camp atop
Taung Shay hills located nearby to their village reported Narinjara News.
MNHRC was sent a complaint by four
local lawmakers, requesting investigation be conducted and action be taken
against the war criminal Myanmar troops for abducting the poor villagers but it
was to no avail and one can realize that the
Myanmar regime left the civilians of
Arakan in a neglected state.
No comments:
Post a Comment