Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) officers torched a house female teachers were using as temporary accommodation in Myient Hlut Village in Maungdaw South on 7 November, according to Mohin from Maungdaw.
He said that four BGP officials from Myient Hlut BGP Camp came into the village and set fire to the teachers’ house, which is close to the BGP camp, at around 7.00pm on 7 November. He also said that there had been Rohingya sentries on duty at an outpost, but that the BGP men had forcibly tied them up before taking pictures of them.
As the BGP men were trying to set fire to the house a soldier from the Burma Army’s Military Securiy Affairs force (Sa Ya Pa) ordered the BGP men to stop torching the house, but they ignored him.
Refun, a local resident said that when they saw the fire villagers, including the Village Administration Officer Myient Hlut, rushed to the teachers’ house. They captured the BGP men and handed them over to the commanding officer of the Myient Hlut BGP Camp.
He told the villagers that he would handle the situation and solve the problem, according to a villager who did not want to be named.
But then, according to the villager, on the morning of 8 November BGP troops fired at a villager selling fowls, but fortunately he was not hit.
He also said that all the villagers of Myient Hlut are very frightened of the Burma Army and BGP troops because they fear that they will just indiscriminately attack villagers.
A Myient Hlut village elder said: “The army and BGP are not scared of killing Rohingya people, torching homes and looting properties and there are no obstacles [to prevent them from doing so].”
Edited in English by Mark Inkey for BNI
