It has been investigated that the terrorist military leader, who has been charged internationally with genocide, and the terrorist SAC under him have been working on the ‘four cuts’ strategy in the Maungdaw district.
The local people in the Maungdaw area have been restricted by the terrorist military since August 14th, as well as restricting movement from one place to another, in addition to food and medical treatment.
”The person with the highest position at the top instructed. It was ordered that no one, whether a monk or a religious teacher or a dying patient, should be allowed. If they starve to death, we have instructed them to burn the entire village and hide their bodies,” an official from Morawati Strategy Camp (Ahlal Than Kyaw) on Maungdaw-Ah Ngu Maw Road told the MPA.
On August 13, a battle broke out between the Arakan Army (AA) and the terrorist military in northern Maungdaw, including near the Ah Ngu Maw-Maungdaw highway, and more than 60 army officers, including a colonel rank, were killed and many weapons and ammunition were lost.
Starting from that day, the entire Maungdaw township, including the Sittwe-Ah Ngu Maw-Maungdaw highway, has not only been restricted to traffic but also emergency patients have not been allowed to travel for medical treatment, according to local residents.
”Now we are not allowed to leave the village. They don’t even allow me to go for medical treatment because my child is sick. We are also afraid that the whole village will be killed and burned like before,” a Rohingya from Pan Taw Pyin Village in Maungdaw Township told the MPA.
Residents said that the military is sending military helicopters to that Maungdaw region, supplying a large number of soldiers with food and weapons, and restrictions were imposed on departmental staff, including local residents.
In the Maungdaw region, which was previously a remote area with high commodity prices, the prices of basic food products have not only gone up, but they can no longer be purchased, and almost all villages are facing famine, according to local residents.
”You can’t buy anything even if you have money. The children are crying too. If this will go like that, we will die of starvation soon. We can’t go anywhere, and we may all starve to death,” a woman from the northern part of Maungdaw Township told MPA.
In August 2017, in the Maungdaw region, the terrorist military committed violent murders, committing raped, burned down entire villages and committed ethnic cleansing. Nearly 400 villages were destroyed, tens of thousands of people were killed, and hundreds of thousands of people had to flee for their lives to the other country.
“What the military is doing in Maungdaw is worse than in 2017. At that time, only Muslims were targeted. Now they are targeting the department staff and all the people living here,” an official from Maungdaw District General Administration Department told the MPA.
For the Maungdaw area, camps and battalions of the terrorists have been strategically built in Rohingya villages that have been destroyed by the terrorists and where bodies are said to be buried. According to the responses of the residents to the MPA’s contact questions, they are trying to prepare to commit more genocides from those areas every day, and some Rohingya are already facing starvation.
