Chittagong, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi police arrested over fifty undocumented Rohingyas from different localities on May 13-14, said one local who did want his name used.
“The police of Chandanach police arrested them from Bottali area in Chittagong zone,” he said.
On the first day, the police arrested thirty-five Rohingya from their homes and places of work. The next day they arrested over fifteen people, said one man who spoke on the condition of anonmity.
Rohingyas are a Muslim ethnic minority persecuted in Burma. Thousands have fed to neighboring Bangladesh to escape human rights violations by the government.
One woman, whose husband was arrested, said she doesn’t know what she will do.
“My husband supported our three children and myself working as a daily laborer. Now that he is in jail, I don’t know how we will survive without him. I have no money to follow his case,” said the woman.
Some of the people who have been arrested by Bangladeshi police from Maungdaw-Buthidaung townships, Arakan State , have been identified as: Saber (18), Yunus (27), Ahesan (22), Yasin Arfat (22), Ismail (25), Jalal Hussain (37),Rafique (22),Yasin (18), Taher (22), Anayet Ullah (22), Sadek (23), Zahed Hussain (21), Nurul Hakim (24), Ali Ahamed (39), Md. Ayas (20), Hasan (21), Shahidul Islam (33), Abu Toyub (19), Reduwan (18), Idris (21), Md. Alam (20), Hafez Ahmed (19) and Abdur Rhaman (20).
