Bengali Rohingyas prowl around outside Rakhine city

Bengali Rohingyas prowl around outside Rakhine city
 

Reported by EMG Reporter Translated and Edited by EMG

Security forces fired warning shots to about 400 Bengali Rohingyas who were attempting to penetrate into Sittway, the city of Rakhine State, at 4:40 pm on 9 July. As their approaching target was so close to the apartments of academic personnel of Sittway University, these employees were relocated to more secure places in the town. People from villages nearby Maungdaw Township are accommodated at the rescue camps as their houses were set fire by Rohingyas. The total number of Rakhine people in one of the rescue camps in Maungdaw Twonship was 400 persons in 9 June afternoon. With regard to the affairs in Rakhine State, the Rakhine National Network made an announcement on 9 June. Their statement includes to publicize the death toll and to search immediately for the loss of Rakhine people, to provide food items, water, medicines and other household items, to protect the lives of Rakhine people and to take legal action against the terrorist Rohingyas. Although some Rohingya mobs gave up their plan to intrude Sittway Township and returned homes at 6 pm, some of them burned down Rakhinese houses in Mingan Ward of the town. Myanmar navy boats have been patrolling along the country’s maritime territory starting from the morning, according to the report of State media. In Yangon, about 300 Rakhine people circled around the Shwedagon Pagoda clockwise on the platform of the pagoda by carrying placards written ‘Save Arakan’ and ‘Protect all nationalities’. After worshiping the pagoda, they shared merits to the dead in riots by keeping silent for five minutes. http://eversion.news-eleven.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=578:bengali-rohingyas-prowl-around-outside-rakhine-city&catid=42:weekly-eleven-news&Itemid=109