22 Bengali Muslims Arrested for Connection to Rathaydaung Gudaung’s Riot

Written by Marm Thwe    Thursday, 28 June 2012 04:05

Local sources reported that Bengali Muslim leader, Eirue, along with the village headman from the village of Ahnoutprum Pyaisait, Maung Maung Warm, religious leaders and villagers were arrested and sent to a prison in Sitetway for allegedly plotting the Rathaydaung Gudaung's Unrest. When interviewed by the Arakan Times, a Gudaung villager said,

"The army and Rathaydaung Township's Administration's Chairperson, along with his group of 22 combined Bengali Muslims, including Eirue, the richest villager of Ahnountprum Pyaisait, village headman, Maung Maung Warm, religious leaders of the village and villagers who led the violence of attacks to local Arakanese, [were] arrested. We know, from the Chairperson of Township Peace and Development Council (TPDC), that all those people were sent to Sitetway's Prison since yesterday and investigated about the murder cases of Gudaung villagers."

According to the spokesperson of the TPDC Chairperson, these murder cases and hidden remains of Gudaung villagers will be made into lawsuits to be able to take serious actions against the culprits.

10 local Arakanese and two Bengali Muslims were killed due to the unrest of Dudaung on June 19, and the remains of Arakanese villagers were returned on June 21. The relief group of Rathaydaung raised 100,000 Kyat (US$ 125) and donated it as the ease of sorrow for the families of those who were killed during the violence.

The Rathaydaung relief group said that a programme of sending money to the victims who fled to Rathaydaung in fear violence in their respective villages, will begin today.