Police Vandalized Shelter-Tents of Displaced Rohingyas

Friday, 17 May 2013 

Police vandalized the shelter tents of the internally displaced Rohingyas at Thay Chaung, Sittwe. The tents were used by the displaced Rohingyas came from Kyauk Phyu Township. Police destroyed the tents as the displaced Rohingyas evacuated them ahead of the Mahasen Cyclone.

“Most of our tents were crude and self-made. The government didn’t even help us in making them. We had left the camps ahead of the storm. Meanwhile, Police destroyed our shelters” said a displaced Rohingya from Thay Chaung.

Having issued the warnings on the Cyclone, the central government and the state government left no stone unturned to force the displaced Rohingyas to the nearest possible places towards the sea.

“The places the government planned for the displaced Rohingyas are the nearest to the sea. We are the people against whom genocide is being committed by the government. On top of that, they wanted to kill us in mass by forcing us to the nearest to the places to the sea during the storm. That’s why we refused to move to such places” he explained.

As the displaced people refused to move to the places nearest to the sea, Police and Hluntin (security forces) vandalized their self-made makeshift tents.

“Those police who were said to have come to help us behaved like murderers. That’s why people became afraid when Police come. As expected, Police destroyed our tents in our absence. Even though we had moved to the places nearest to the sea as the government wanted, we would not have had any places to stay either” he exclaimed about their crises.