After the Myanmar Military overthrew the elected people’s government, more and more terrorist acts were carried out throughout the country.
In addition, burning down, bulldozing, and confiscating people’s homes throughout the country is still being acted to this day.
Among such injustice land confiscations, also includes village lands where the Rohingyas from the Maungdaw region were violently killed and burnt down.
Most of these villages were burned down, and the burned areas were cleared with large machines, and military forces, battalions, and strategic camps were built.
The No. 6 Border Guard Battalion was firmly built on nearly 200 acres of land in Inn Din Village, Maungdaw Township, where the Rohingya lived, and the evidence of the genocide against the Rohingya in 2017 was erased.
After the mass exodus of the Rohingya, border police offices were quickly built by the Military Engineering Battalion (GE – Garrison Engineering Unit) in 6 villages in Northern Rakhine where those Rohingya lived.
Among them, the earliest constructions and the obvious ones are the No. 5 Border Guard Battalion, which was built on the land of the Myo Thu Gyi Rohingya village, located next to the entrance road to Maungdaw and the No. 6 Border Guard Battalion, which was built on the land of the Inn Din Rohingya village.
At that time, the No. 7 Border Guard Battalion, which was built in Kyein Chaung, North Maungdaw, and the No. 8 Border Guard Battalion, which was built near Buthidaung Township, Alal Chaung Village, were built at the same time.
All those places are Rohingya villages, and Rohingyas and local residents say that the Myanmar Military violently killed Rohingyas in 2017 and buried them on fire while erasing the evidence at the same time.
No. 1 Border Guard Police Command for Border Guard Police Command Force in Maungdaw was formed on March 10, 2014, and is supervised by a Chief of Police.
The Border Guard Police – BGP, a unit of the Myanmar Police Force, based along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, was formed, to replace the Border Region Immigration Inspection Command Headquarters (Na-Sa-Ka), which was abolished on July 12, 2013.
The Border Guard Police is under the Ministry of Home Affairs and the area under the responsibility of No. (1) Border Guard Police Command force includes Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathaetaung Townships.
Under the command of the No. 1 Border Guard Police Command Force, 4 regions, and 11 areas have been designated, and 11 regional offices, 12 regional police stations, 95 outposts, 27 Chaungwa outposts, 12 border fence outposts, and a total of 157 locations have been operated by 4 border guard police divisions.
These activities were carried out on the 168.57 miles on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, 39.82 miles from the mouth of the Naf River in the Bay of Bengal to the source of the northern river, and from the Myanmar-Bangladesh border point BP-31 to the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India border point BP-73, 128.
Among those places, on October 9, 2016, Rohingyas carried out an armed terrorist attack in Maungdaw Township, and the Border Region Immigration Inspection Headquarters (Na-Ka-Sa) in Maungdaw Township, Kyee Kan Pyin was also attacked and the armory was vandalized.
After that, 34 outposts were added, and 4 border guard police divisions under the No. (1) Border Guard Police Command, as well as No. (8), No. (12) and No. (25) Security Police Divisions were reinforced and moved, joining troops from the Myanmar Military joined forces.
At that time, there were no battalions or brigades coming from the mainland, and only the 551st Battalion under the No. 15 Operational Headquarters based in Buthidaung, and some battalions from Buthidaung Military Strategic Forces were active.
“On October 9, 2016, three border guard police units were attacked by a group of Muslim militants, and as a result, tens of thousands of Muslims fled to the border with Bangladesh due to the Tatmadaw and Police’s clearance operations. The situation in northern Rakhine State requires immediate action,” the final report of the Rakhine State Advisory Commission stated.
About ten months after the 2017 genocide, another major terrorist attack occurred in the Maungdaw region.
In Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathaetaung townships, 12 local police stations, 129 outposts, 27 outposts in Chaungwa, and 30 out of 12 border fence outposts were attacked simultaneously.
The incident began on the night of August 24, 2017, when it published the final report on Rakhine State coincidentally.
In the happening, Myanmar Military’s 33rd and 99th Divisions brutally murdered and raped the Rohingya in Maungdaw, Rakhine State in August 2017 and burned their villages, causing hundreds of thousands of Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced on March 12, 2018 that, from August 25, 2017, to March 2018, 362 Rohingya villages in the Maungdaw region were destroyed by fire and more than 680,000 people were forced to flee their homes due to the genocide.
Among them, there were 364 villages, including 85 villages such as Arakan, Mro, Thet, Daingnet, and Kha Mee in Maungdaw Township, 7 villages close to Rohingya villages, and 272 villages of Rohingya lived in reserved, most of which are Rohingya villages.
Among the three townships of Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathaetaung, there are only 24 Rohingya villages in Rathaetaung township, up to 19 villages in Rathaetaung township were burned down, and hundreds of Rohingya people were killed in Chut Pyin village in the eastern foothills of Mayu Mountain, the Rohingyas said.
It is said that hundreds of Rohingya were violently killed in Guta Pyin village, near the location of the No. 8 Border Guard Police Battalion in the south of Buthidaung Township, and in Taung Pazar Village, where the 551st Battalion of the Myanmar Military is located.
In addition, Myo Thu Gyi village, where the No. 5 Border Guard Police Battalion was established, Inn Din Village, where the No. 6 Border Guard Police Battalion was built, and Aung Sit Pyin Village (Kyein Chaung), where the No. 7 Border Guard Police Battalion was built, are also places where hundreds of Rohingya people were killed and buried by violence, Rohingyas and local people confirmed.
For the sake of international justice, the Myanmar Government has been sued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands, for committing such genocide.
During the National League for Democracy (NLD), Elected People’s Government, the State Counselor (Daw) Aung San Suu Kyi personally defended the lawsuit.
However, in August 2019, the Rakhine State Government issued a local order prohibiting Rohingyas from entering and working in Maungdaw, Buthidaung, and Rathaetaung townships.
The Maungdaw Township Administrative Office further issued the order on February 15, 2020, stating that “homes, yards, agricultural land (farmland and gardening land) and shrimp ponds and fish ponds that are engaged in farming should not be entered, lived and working by unauthorized persons and that failure to comply will result in legal action.”
At the time of the such announcement, most of those places are said to have been already built and hidden evidence of the border guard area office, area police station, outpost, Chow 0 outpost, border fence outpost, battalion, strategy, many divisions, and departmental buildings.
In addition, the President’s Office confirmed on October 10, 2020, that the colonels of the Myanmar Military have been transformed into Border Guard Police Officers and two more new Border Guard Battalions have been formed.
The two battalions are the No. 9 Border Guard Police Battalion, which is still being built in the southern part of Maungdaw Township, Myin Hlut sub-township where nearly a hundred villages were burned down, and the No. 10 Border Guard Police Battalion, which is being built near the Hla Phoe Khaung Temporary Reception Camp.
In Rakhine State, the elected government, which is giving advice and consent to build the largest number of regional offices, regional police stations, outposts, Chaungwa Outposts, border fence outposts, battalions, strategic camps, and divisions, failed to fulfill the demands of the international community justice from and the public. Then, after about four months, the Myanmar Military took power.
Together with the Myanmar military’s injustice military coup, from international justice for the killing of the Rohingya has reached towards a situation where the entire country of Myanmar has to demand justice.
The NLD-backed National Unity Government (NUG) and the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) held an official online meeting in early 2022 to revolutionize the Myanmar Coup Regime which is also the future of Rohingya.
After that meeting, the fighting in Rakhine, which had stopped for more than a year, started again in the northern part of Maungdaw, where the majority of the Rohingya live and ethnic killings took place.
During the first Rakhine conflict, the 2nd Brigade of the Arakan Army (AA), which had been building up forces and operating secretly, occupied the bases and even threatened and controlled the SAC battalions, strategic camps, and headquarters.
Even before the resurgence of the fighting, some sources confirmed that the AA controlled some of the areas where the Rohingya massacres took place and that some evidence of the massacres had been discovered.
During the first battle in Rakhine, two Myanmar soldiers who witnessed the killing of the Rohingyas, who were captured by the AA, were sent to the international community. Since the Rohingya people have also been appointed as ULA members, so they are trying to control the entire Maungdaw region, according to observers’ review.
There are 1,331,157 acres of farmland in Rakhine State, and Maungdaw District and Sittwe District, where the main conflicts occurred, have nearly 9 (889,930) hundred thousand acres of farmland, which is 67 percent of the total farmland acres in the entire Rakhine State, and the SAC has the right to expand and use more than hundreds of acres to build new battalions and strategic camps.
In addition, the village area where Rohingya corpses are buried in the entire Maungdaw region is being used by no one to prevent it, but the SAC elders are also saying that since it is not the official government, it is trying to legitimize the prohibitions of the people’s government.
The battalions, strategies, and divisions of the SAC, which have been forcibly built over the Rohingya corpses in Maungdaw, must be eliminated on the ground by the Arakan Army (AA) with the international diplomatic pressure of the National Unity Government (NUG) and the participation and support of the Rohingya.
International human rights observers and Rohingya activists consider that only then can the international investigation be carried out on the forced construction and evidence concealment of Rohingya corpses in the Maungdaw area, and the Rohingyas will be able to return home with dignity and justice.