.Maungdaw, Arakan State: Authorities in Maungdaw have resumed collecting household family lists among Rohingya communities and charging fees for the documentation, said a local elder from Maungdaw.
“Authorities from the immigration department, village authorities and members of the border security force, Nasaka are going from house to house collecting lists of names,” the elder said.
“They started collecting the information shortly after the November 7 election.”
The elder added that in Maungdaw Township, there are six blocks under municipal control and only in Block 4, where most of the residents are not Rohingyas, that officials are not collecting lists and charging money.
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A resident from Block 4 said the area’s head, Htun Nyo, is collecting lists and charging 5,000 kyats per family only from Rohingya residents.
“The headman is a migrant from Barisal in Bangladesh who has been here since the time of the Burma Socialist Program Party (BSPP) and has a reputation for harassing the Rohingya community in his block and extorting money,” the resident said.
“Block 4 was mostly paddy fields belong to Maungdaw big mosque, and the authorities settled a lot of people here from the Rakhine community back when I was in high school in Maungdaw town,” said a former student from Rangoon University. “Now it has big concrete houses and big trees.”
Blocks 1 and 3 each have mixed communities, but there is no money being collected from the Rohingya community, said a village authority member.
“But we don’t know what is happening in the rural areas where most of the Rohingya community lives or whether authorities are charging money from them for household family lists,” the village authority said, adding that it was likely the regular harassment that happens when authorities need to raise money.
“Authorities from the immigration department, village authorities and members of the border security force, Nasaka are going from house to house collecting lists of names,” the elder said.
“They started collecting the information shortly after the November 7 election.”
The elder added that in Maungdaw Township, there are six blocks under municipal control and only in Block 4, where most of the residents are not Rohingyas, that officials are not collecting lists and charging money.
http://kaladanpress.org/v3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2932:authorities-resume-charging-rohingyas-for-family-documents-&catid=129:december-2010&Itemid=2
A resident from Block 4 said the area’s head, Htun Nyo, is collecting lists and charging 5,000 kyats per family only from Rohingya residents.
“The headman is a migrant from Barisal in Bangladesh who has been here since the time of the Burma Socialist Program Party (BSPP) and has a reputation for harassing the Rohingya community in his block and extorting money,” the resident said.
“Block 4 was mostly paddy fields belong to Maungdaw big mosque, and the authorities settled a lot of people here from the Rakhine community back when I was in high school in Maungdaw town,” said a former student from Rangoon University. “Now it has big concrete houses and big trees.”
Blocks 1 and 3 each have mixed communities, but there is no money being collected from the Rohingya community, said a village authority member.
“But we don’t know what is happening in the rural areas where most of the Rohingya community lives or whether authorities are charging money from them for household family lists,” the village authority said, adding that it was likely the regular harassment that happens when authorities need to raise money.
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