Arakan News Agency
No Rohingya villagers will meet the Ministry of Information lead journalists -December 20th, said Hamidul Rahaman who is a victim of “clearance” operation by recent Burmese armed forces in Northern Maungdaw.
Ministry of Information lead journalists arrived Maungdaw on December 19th and will visit the areas where armed forces claim to search alleged Rohingya armed group and killed, rape, burnt, loot and arrested innocent Rohingya villagers and all the Rohingya villagers hope they will expose their harassment to journalists to inform people all over the world, Hamidul added
The three-day trip began on December 19th, with representatives from the Central News Burea, SkyNet, Mizzima, EPA, Kyodo New, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Myanmar, EPA, 7Days, the state-owned News and Periodical Enterprise, and The Myanmar Times.
According to the schedule prepared by the Ministry of Information, the trip will include field visits to nine villages in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships over three days. on the first day the journalists were taken to a hospital, school and market in Buthidaung.
But, we get information from Maungdaw, the journalists will lead by MOI officers and Arakan state government officers and armed forces are roundup our villages, threaten us not to tell what really happend regarding armed forces action, said Amin, from an affected village.
It seems just like the vice president U Myint Swe lead commission, armed force around the village and beaten us not to meet, not to say anything. But, we resisted and met the commission told what really happened to us. The commission lied and gave false information to the world and protected the armed forces, Amin more added.
So, this time, we are not giving any information to anyone who came with security force and MOI with Arakan state government, said local villagers.
