KALADAN NEWS
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Army and Mob Kill Children, Demolish Houses
Buthidaung,
June 22: 3 children were murdered
and 3 houses in the village were also ransacked at the hands of an unruly mob
comprising army personnel and Natala (model)
villagers, said a villager who recently crossed border into Bangladeshi soil,
confirmed to Kaladan Press network.
Hamid Bokshu, 40, a senior assistant teacher of
A Natala villager was appointed as a gate keeper since 2002
for the garden to avoid disturbances from nearby army camp and Natala villagers, he further said.
Every
year, the garden had been normally cleaned 2 to 3 times by at least 10 laborers
and this year also engaged the same laborers to clean up the garden, but the
gate keeper barred them to do the same as before on
Being
released, the gate keeper immediately appraised the event of arrest to the
battalion No.522 and his Natala villagers.
Following
the matter, the next day, 10 soldiers from Battalion No.552 accompanied by 20
other Natala villagers went to the house of the owner
of the garden and the VPDC Chairman's house to arrest them on June 5, 2005,
while they arrested 15 males and 20 females including children from nearby 13
houses and completely destroyed 3 houses as their failure of to arrest the VPDC
chairman and the owner of the garden.
The
arrestees were tied with ropes and kept them in a field in the open sky while
the temperature was very high. The
arrestees were also severely beaten up by the army while they were affected by
the fluctuation. In the meantime, 3 children were dead on the field for the
cause of high temperature.
In
the evening, 8 males and all the females including children were set free by
army but 7 others male were brought to the (their camp) army camp, later they
were sent to Buthidaung police station on June 7,
2005.
Hamid Bokshu, the owner of the garden, his wife Latifa Begum and VPDC Chairman Noor
Hossain were going into hiding to avoid the arrest.
But their whereabouts are still unknown.
Natala
villages means model villages which were established in
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