A complete of 31 Rohingya and 5 boatmen had been arrested as they neared a seaside at Nwei Nyo Chaung village in Ayeyarwady area’s Pathein township, locals instructed RFA.
A resident, who didn’t wish to be named for security causes, instructed RFA 19 Rohingya males and 12 girls had been arrested by junta forces on Sunday, together with a baby underneath the age of 18 and the boat’s crew.
“They got here from Rakhine State,” stated the native. “They got here by boat and the boat drivers had been paid to hold them. Many individuals who get into Ayeyarwady area are sometimes arrested.”
The resident stated the Rohingya had been despatched to Pathein Jail on Monday morning. He added that they could have been dwelling in Maungdaw city in Rakhine State and left due to a rise in combating between the Arakan Military (AA) and navy council forces within the space.
RFA has been unable to substantiate the place the Rohingya got here from.
Ayeyarwady area lies immediately south of Rakhine State and continues to draw Rohingya fleeing unemployment, starvation and discrimination in addition to combating between junta troops and the AA.
On Sept. 7 and 9 a complete of 58 Rohingya had been sentenced to 2 years in jail every at Bogale township court docket. That they had been arrested on Aug. 29 close to Ga Yat Gyi (Kat Tar) island in Ayeyarwady’s Pyapon township.
On July 23, this yr, 22 Rohingya males and 24 girls had been arrested by the junta’s navy, additionally close to Pathein township’s Shwe Thaung Yan seaside.
The arrests haven’t been confined to Ayeyarwady. On Sept. 4, a complete of 28 Rohingya had been arrested in Letpadan township within the western a part of Bago, in response to locals. Bago is on the japanese border of Rakhine State.
From December 2021 to September 6, 2022, almost 800 Rohingya who tried to go away Rakhine State by land or water had been arrested in numerous elements of Myanmar, in response to knowledge compiled by RFA based mostly on the statements of residents and native information media.
A navy crackdown on the Rohingya, which began 5 years in the past, led to greater than 740,000 Rohingya fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh.
Of the greater than 600,000 Rohingya who stayed in Myanmar an estimated 125,000 have been confined to camps in Rakhine State.
