Maungdaw, Arkan State: Burma Border Guard Police (BGP) recently ordered to Rohingya villagers under Maungdaw Township not to fence their home compound with tin-sheets as it shields vision of family members in the compound, said Akil from the locality.
Earlier, villagers used bamboo for house-fencing as bamboo is available at that time. But now it becomes bamboo shortage in the areas. As a result, villagers are using tin-sheets to fence for surrounding their home compound at present, he added.
BGP asked villagers for fencing the compounds of homes by erecting concrete pillars with barbed-wire. It needs permission from BGP or other concerned authority by giving money, so, BGP and concerned authority can get money from Rohingya villagers, a village elder Masood form Maungdaw Town said.
But, most of the villagers are not able to make fencing for their homes, with pillars with barbed-wire because of costing more money than the tin-sheets fencing, he added.
BGP always see the Rohingya people as a blemish or ugly thing so that they can find faults against Rohingya villagers to disturb them mentally and physically, a village businessman from upper Maungdaw said on condition of anonymity.
