Below I have posted a Facebook chat with a Rohingya contact living in Aungmingalar in the Arakan (Rakhine) state of Burma. In it he expresses how the village is on high alert due to rumours of an imminent attack from the 969 Buddhist group, and women and children are now paying police to leave the compound to live in a refugee camp instead. He reports that they pay 130 thousand in Myanmar money for a car. They squeeze 20 people into a car, which is driven by a policeman. Over 12 cars, 300 people, have left in the past 3 days.
He tells me there are 10 thousand people living at Aungmingalar, which is under total blockade by the government. Residents have to purchase all food via the government officials, who inflate the price. There is not enough food. No one is allowed out to work or trade so they are surviving on donations from Muslims in Yangon. Health care is also denied.
RC = Rohinyga Contact
• Conversation
started today (2nd April 2013)
9:44am
RC
hi
hi
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10:00am
Jamila Hanan
hi
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10:00am
RC
how are you?
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10:00am
Jamila Hanan
good thanks and you?
are you still in Burma?
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10:01am
RC
me too also fine,thanks
i am in Burma
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10:02am
Jamila Hanan
Rohingya?
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10:03am
RC
did you heard about yangon condition
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10:03am
Jamila Hanan
yes
we have 2 reporters who were on the scene after it happened
are you in yangon now?
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10:05am
RC
no,i am now at Aungmingalar village in sittwe
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10:05am
Jamila Hanan
oh right
what is the situation there now?
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10:06am
RC
situation is not good bcoz buddies planning to destroy and
burn again Aungmingalar village,the group of 969
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10:06am
Jamila Hanan
have you had any direct threats
?
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10:07am
RC
no
but i heard
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10:07am
Jamila Hanan
what did you hear? and from who?
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10:08am
RC
since 3day they discuss with state government from here,to
do again
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10:10am
Jamila Hanan
can you tell me who told you what, exactly?
i can help with public pressure but I need specific details
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10:12am
RC
also the security police tell all about ,that we need to
take care bcoz the 969 group were came here to destroy again
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10:13am
Jamila Hanan
the police told you that?
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10:14am
RC
yes,
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10:14am
Jamila Hanan
did you hear them say that yourself?
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10:15am
RC
everyone know and here from our village
everyone know and hear from our village
that why our villager are afraid to stay here
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10:17am
Jamila Hanan
but i need specific details you know - not just rumours, if
I am to be believed
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10:17am
RC
and go to refuge camp
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10:17am
Jamila Hanan
I need to know who said waht
who said what
when did they say it
how many have left for the refugee camp? and which camp did
they go to?
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10:18am
RC
ok,i when i have full deatils ,i will countact
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10:20am
Jamila Hanan
please try get me as much detail as possible
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10:20am
RC
almost 3houndred of our villager go to the bohdubar refuge
camp,they all are women and child,
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10:21am
Jamila Hanan
try to get specific information
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10:21am
RC
in this 3 day
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10:21am
Jamila Hanan
3 hundred have left for the refugee camps?
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10:21am
RC
yes
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10:21am
Jamila Hanan
over the past 3 days?
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10:21am
RC
yes
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10:21am
Jamila Hanan
to bohdubar refuge camp
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10:22am
RC
yes
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10:22am
Jamila Hanan
where is this camp?
is it near Aung Minglar?
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10:23am
RC
no so far,town side ,also there are all muslim camp
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10:24am
Jamila Hanan
how far from Aung Minglar is the camp?
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10:25am
RC
8 to 10miles from aungmingalar
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10:25am
Jamila Hanan
did they walk to the camp?
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10:26am
RC
no,they rent security police and police car
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10:26am
Jamila Hanan
the police are helping them leave?
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10:28am
RC
they are not helping us ,they want that we all are go from
here,if one time we rent police ,we have to give them over 100 thousand money
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10:29am
Jamila Hanan
so tell me exactly, how much does it cost to rent a police
car?
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10:29am
RC
myanmar money 130 thousand
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10:30am
Jamila Hanan
for one police car?
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10:30am
RC
yes
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10:30am
Jamila Hanan
how many people can you put in one car?
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10:30am
RC
20 peoples
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10:31am
Jamila Hanan
who drives the car?
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10:31am
RC
police
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10:31am
Jamila Hanan
who do you talk to if you want to book a car?
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10:32am
RC
elder police
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10:33am
Jamila Hanan
do you have any names? or the name of the police division?
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10:35am
RC
i have before but now haven't bcoz the first was change ,
and another one is came
i will give you all name and all details
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10:35am
Jamila Hanan
tell me names from before too
how many cars have been paid for so far?
my email is [email removed for security] you can also send
info here later
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10:36am
RC
[email removed for security]
my mail
i will sent to you mail
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10:37am
Jamila Hanan
tell me how many cars have left so far?
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10:38am
RC
over 12 car
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10:38am
Jamila Hanan
have you spoken to the women after they arrived at the camp?
did they arrive safely do you know?
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10:39am
RC
yes
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10:39am
Jamila Hanan
how many people are left now at Aung Minglar?
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10:39am
RC
over300
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10:40am
Jamila Hanan
and how many remain at Aung Minglar?
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10:41am
RC
nearly 10 thousand
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10:41am
Jamila Hanan
what are the conditions like at Aung Minglar?
Do you have enough food and water?
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10:42am
RC
the conditions are till same before,as you know they need
food
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10:44am
Jamila Hanan
how much food do they have?
where do you get your food from?
have there been any deaths due to malnutrition?
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10:47am
RC
how much money we pay to buy the food from government,they
give that about
how much money we pay to buy the food to government,they
give that about
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10:48am
Jamila Hanan
ok so you have to buy everything from the government yes?
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10:49am
RC
yes, but we have to give extra money to them,to buy food
we have to give car rent and security rent
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10:50am
Jamila Hanan
so everything you do and buy is controlled by the government?
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10:50am
RC
yes
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10:50am
Jamila Hanan
is it expensive to buy food from them?
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10:51am
RC
bcoz we are block
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10:51am
Jamila Hanan
more expensive then outside Aung Minglar?
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10:52am
RC
very expensive to buy from them,out side aungmingalar is not
expensive
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10:53am
Jamila Hanan
where do you get money from?
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10:54am
RC
some of donned from muslim group of yangon
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10:55am
Jamila Hanan
can people get into Aung Minglar if they travel from Yangon?
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10:57am
RC
yes but if the traveler give money to state government,at
that time they enter
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10:58am
Jamila Hanan
do you have access to healthcare?
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10:58am
RC
is here no access healthcare and medicine
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10:59am
Jamila Hanan
have people died from malnutrition and lack of healthcare?
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11:02am
RC
yes,if someone who are not well,who have to go for the
medical treatment to refuge camp ,as you you who have to give money ,if who are
poor or wealth
yes,if someone who are not well,who have to go for the
medical treatment to refuge camp ,as you know who have to give money ,if who
are poor or wealth
i have to go pray now,
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11:04am
Jamila Hanan
ok please send me more info after
numbers of deaths would help
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11:05am
RC
at our aungmingalar village mosque
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11:05am
Jamila Hanan
plus names of police involved with Rohingya transportation
to camps
and any specific details of threats
and when any attacks are expected to happen
plus if anyone can get me photos that would help too
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11:05am
RC
i will give you all
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11:05am
Jamila Hanan
and any contact telephone numbers
take care brother
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11:06am
RC
thanks
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11:06am
Jamila Hanan
i can help if you send me this information
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11:06am
RC
ok,i hope
bye,see you
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11:07am
Jamila Hanan
can i publish this discussion?
without your name or email?
or is that dangerous for you?
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11:07am
RC
without my name
yes
i know
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11:07am
Jamila Hanan
of course i would never put your name
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11:08am
RC
thanks
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11:08am
Jamila Hanan
your safety is my main concern
thankyou
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11:08am
RC
bye
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11:08am
Jamila Hanan
i shall publish this information today
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11:08am
RC
thanks
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11:08am
Jamila Hanan
www.savetherohingya.blogspot.com
i will pray for you
as well as act
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11:09am
RC
god will bless you
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11:09am
Jamila Hanan
stay strong
you are the blessed ones
your reward will be the greatest
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11:09am
RC
you to sis
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11:09am
Jamila Hanan
go pray
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11:10am
RC
i must go to pray**********UPDATE**********
RC
update news of
Aungmingalar village.at 9:00 pm now,when buddies stremist enter with weapons at
that time police arrest 4 buddies stremist.
4:16pm
Jamila Hanan
4 buddhist
extremists have been arrested?
at Aungmingalar?
today at 9pm they
arrested them?
4:17pm
RC
yes they arrest
4:17pm
Jamila Hanan
did you see them?
4:21pm
RC
yes ,now they let
them go away.police didn't any action to that buddies stremist.
4:21pm
Jamila Hanan
there were four of
them?
what did they try
to do exactly?
and what weapons
were they carrying?
and did you see
this happen yourself?
4:30pm
RC
there were 20 to
30 buddies,but police caught 4 of them,they all are run away
4:37pm
RC
now police said
they had lost their way that why they came at aungmingalar village
now police let
them go free
4:45pm
Jamila Hanan
what weapons were
they carrying?
and who saw them?
4:46pm
RC
petrol bottles ,
swords and another their needed things during the period of electricity went
off for 15minutes in Aungmingalar village
4:47pm
Jamila Hanan
when you say
Buddhists, do you mean Rakhine?
4:48pm
RC
yes rakhine
4:48pm
Jamila Hanan
who saw them?
4:49pm
RC
villager saw them
4:49pm
Jamila Hanan
do you know the
villager?
4:49pm
RC
yes,they all are
our villager
4:50pm
Jamila Hanan
did one person see
this or more?
4:51pm
RC
a lot of peoples
who saw that they entering here
4:52pm
Jamila Hanan
ok
are there any
Rakhine trying to enter now?
4:54pm
RC
now situation is
under control but we don't know what will happen
here again
4:55pm
Jamila Hanan
ok thanks
keep me informed
i will get this
info out
and try push for
urgent protection there
is there anyone
that can do a telephone interview with one of my team, first thing in your
morning?
it would be a
recorded interview for us to publish online
4:56pm
RC
me too thanks
Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. God the child who suffers.
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