Arakan News Agency
A Rohingya man died in his sixties at the hands of an unknown armed group on Monday evening in the southern city of Maungdaw, Arakan state in western Myanmar.
According to the Arakan news agency, an extremist gang entered the town of Baag guna, south of Maungdaw late Monday night, the Rohingya man was named Amir Ali and he was shot three times that penetrated his body and died immediately. The gang then fled after the crime was committed.
“The agency retains his name,” an eyewitness said. “The gang was a new Buddhists extremist which has recently been heard of in the area, and their members have fled after committing their crime.
Armed men with rifles, knives and bamboo sticks have been roaming the villages and towns of the Rohingya minority in Arakan since the outbreak of sectarian violence in 2012 and has been involved in many crimes, including murder, burning houses, kidnapping children, raping women and looting property in front of the corrupt of the Government of Myanmar and the Buddhist monks.
