Source: Kaladan Press Network Please visit and show your support and appreciation
A Rohingya girl died of starvation at Teknaf after crossing the Burma-Bangladesh border, Lukman from Teknaf said. The victim was identified as Rashida Khatun (16), daughter of late Abdul Salam, and hailed from Ashika Para of Maungdaw Township. She had no parents, brothers or sisters.
She had crossed the Burma-Bangladesh border along with other people on April 10, after facing days of starvation in her native village. After crossing the border, she lived at her relative’s house in Boroitoli village of Teknaf Union. She was very weak; the victim’s relative from Boroitoli village said.
However, she died on April 12, at about 6: 00 pm, in her relative’s house. On that day, in the morning, she was buried in the cemetery of the village.
According to her relative, many people are spending nights without food, as they have no jobs and the villagers are barred from going out of their own village. Therefore, many poor villagers are jobless, and have no food stored in their houses to fall back upon.
A Rohingya elder named Deen Mohamed from Cox’s Bazar said that about 30 Rohingya young girls had fled to Cox’s Bazar from Arakan north recently, as they did not get marriage permission form the concerned authorities.
Recently, near the Bangladesh–Burma border, in every village on the Bangladesh side a committee was formed, which functions only to bar the Rohingya refugees, from entering Bangladesh. Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) is on high alert, to push back Rohingya refugees if the refugees cross the Naff River. In recent times, three passenger boats from Burma were pushed back to Burma, a Rohingya villager from Teknaf said.
In northern Arakan, many Rohingya people are ready to cross the border due to their movement restrictions, jobless situations, acute food crisis and arbitrary persecutions by concerned authorities, said a local trader from Maungdaw Town.
