13 families of new settlers brought to maungdaw

13 families of new settlers were brought to Maungdaw north, Arakan State from Rangoon for settlement on 22nd October, according to our source.
The settlers were shifted into Baruwa Khata villag of Ngarang Chaung village tract, a place 38 miles north of Maungdaw under the Nasaka area No.2. This village is placed nearly 2 miles from Bangladesh border. The members of the settlers were looked like very gentle. Some of them were hanging gold chains to their necks, source further added.

Since August 2002, the authorities have been very busy construction of aforesaid model village for the new settlers. In addition, some acres of Rohingya lands were seized within a short time for these settlers. The houses were built with forced labor of Rohingya villagers though there is no forced labor in Burma, declared by SPDC authorities. All these houses were built with wood and looked very fine, said a ex-village chairman.

About the construction of this Natala village (model village), a problem was occurred among the model, Nasaka, the Secretary and a special intelligent branch for cutting wood and bamboos. For this reason, Salay Ahamed, 35, the present Village Peace and Development Council Secretary Furkhan’s younger brother was dead in last September while he was going to appear before the special intelligent branch that came from Rangoon.

In this connection, the Secretary to the special intelligent branch had paid Kyats 12,00,000/-, said a villager to our source.