KALADAN NEWS
Dated:
Arakanese Face Risk
Maungdaw,
June 22: People in Arakan are now facing serious trouble in living in the land
of calamity and scarcity.
During
the couple of weeks, there is high temperature that causes water crisis in
various places of
Villagers
are being engaged in forced labors for the construction site of roads, model
villages, bunkers, camps, to cut wood and bamboos from forest through various
means Nasaka and military officials, while the
villagers themselves cut the same materials for their families and that causes
to lack of incomes and environmental destructions in the area, said a community
health worker, who preferred not to mention his name.
Due
to the lack of water, incomes and environmental effects, people become sick and
have to face various diseases in their poorly living areas and they are also
deprived of appropriate health facilities and treatments. There are no more health centers in the area for which people are
at the risk of losing their lives. So, they are compelled to cross border to
have medical treatment in its neighboring
Furthermore,
rice crisis brings the people into risk and transfer of rice from one house to
another and one place to another is seriously restricted under the newly
adopted policies in
As
a result, many people think to leave their ancestral homeland (Arakan) to find better places in proper
Though
the rest could reach to
These
crises are found in Arakan after the sack of Gen.
Khin Nyunt, last year and imposing of sever restrictions over Rohingyas after newly appointed Western Command Commander
Brigadier Gen. Khin Maung Myint in early June this
year.
The
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