Seven injured in Rakhine's clash between Bengalis and authorities: official

Seven injured in Rakhine's clash between Bengalis and authorities: official

Published on Sunday, 11 August 2013 18:06

 

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     Clash between Bengalis and security forces occurred in Rakhine State (Photo/EMG)

 

Myanmar's Rakhine State Government has announced that seven people were injured in gunfire with no casualties in a violence that involved a group of Bengalis who had burned down a police outpost on August 9 following a dispute of a person who died from drowning in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine.

The incident erupted in morning after a row between police members and a crowd of 500 Bengalis over the body of a 34-year-old Bengali man found at a creek near Ohndawgyi village in Sittwe.

The Bengalis burned down Chaungwa police outpost and three camps formerly used by security forces near the village and took things from the camps with them on that day. And they managed to cut the connection between Ohndawgyi and Bawdupha relief camp by destroying the road. The police and army troops could not reach the relief camp as the route had been cut.

"The security situation there could get worse because of the [Bengalis'] incident. I think they did this because they know Quintana [Tomás Ojea Quintana, the United Nations Special Rapporteur] would be visiting soon. Does one should deter a normal police procedure? They seemed to do this to make Rakhine ethnic people unbearable. Rakhine people will only accept [them] if they don't make any hostile act. They seemed to do this to make the Rakhine people lose trust in them," said Win Myaing, the secretary for Rakhine State's Information and Records Subcommittee.

Security situation there is still fragile as Bengalis are likely to make attacks though the security forces are beefed up there.

Source: http://www.news.myanmaronlinecentre.com/2013/08/12/seven-injured-in-rakhines-clash-between-bengalis-and-authorities-official/