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Three years ago, the Myanmar army razed the Rohingya village of Rakhine after it caught fire. Last year, the Myanmar government removed the village’s name from its official map, the United Nations said.
Hundreds of people lived in the village of Kan Kia, about 3 miles from the Naf River. In 2016, Myanmar troops burned the Rohingya-inhabited villages of Rakhine and carried out indiscriminate killings. At that time, some 730,000 Rohingya arrived in Bangladesh from Rakhine and took refuge. The United Nations has called the crackdown a “genocide” by the Myanmar government in the name of fighting terrorism.
Citing satellite images, the Reuters news agency reported that many government and military buildings have now been erected at the site of Kan Kia village. The Myanmar government has also established a police base there.
An official map of Myanmar sent to the UN mapping unit in 2020 shows that the site is now called an extension of the nearby city of Maungdaw.
According to Human Rights Watch, a New York-based human rights group, the Myanmar military destroyed at least 400 villages during the 2016 operation. They have provided this information by analyzing satellite images. The names of at least a dozen villages, including Kan Kiya, have now been removed from the map.
In this regard, the Rohingya religious leader Mohammad Rafiq, who took refuge in a refugee camp in Bangladesh, said: “They want us not to return.” Mohammad Rafiq was the president of another village near Kan Kia. .
Myanmar’s Ministry of Social Welfare is in charge of reorganizing Rakhine State. However, he declined to comment with Reuters on the name of the village. Reuters was asked to contact Myanmar’s General Administration Department (GAD) to discuss the matter. No response was received when contacting there.
Meanwhile, the representative of the Myanmar government did not agree to comment on the matter.
Ittefaq / AR
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