Maungdaw, Arakan State: A village administration office staff member forced Rohingya villagers to pay 200 kyat for a photocopy of a document required by other government officials called the “family list” which normally costs 30 kyats, according to a village administration office member from Maungdaw.
“One photocopy cost only 30 kyats in Maungdaw but she is collecting 200 kyats for one. Shwezarr is only one mile far away from main Town,” the source told Kaladan Press in an interview.
“It means she got 170 kyat per copy and the village tract has more than 10,000 families.”
A school teacher in the area said Ms.Nay Myo Than, the clerk in Shwe Zarr Village Tract is collecting money for the list even though the local Burmese border security force (Nasaka) and Immigration officials collect the same information and group photos of Rohingya villagers from Shwezarr Village Tract.
Critics say the clerk should work in the same location where the other officials gather the information daily from villagers already if she wants the list.
“She doesn’t want the list but wants money from the Rohingya community,” a villager said.
