12/5/2018 Ethnic Mro Murdered in Maungdaw, N.

Rakhine

Burma

Ethnic Mro Murdered in Maungdaw, N. Rakhine

 The body of U Duu Lu was recovered on Thursday. / Maung Wuntha / Facebook

By MIN AUNG KHINE 21 September 2018

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SITTWE—An ethnic Mro man from the village of Thit Tone Na Kwa Sone in northern
Rakhine State’s Maungdaw Township was murdered on Wednesday.

The victim, identified as Duu Lu (40), reportedly went to the woods near his village to
put the cattle out to pasture on Wednesday. He did not come back and when villagers
searched for him the following day, they found him dead with stab wounds some 2.4
kilometers (1.5 miles) north of the village.

“He took eight cows to pasture, and we only found six cows,” Maungdaw Township
administrator U Myat Khaing told The Irrawaddy.

Police are investigating the murder, he said.

Lower House lawmaker U Aung Thaung Shwe of Buthidaung Township blamed the lack
of rule of law in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships in northern Rakhine State for the
killings, adding that security services are not sufficient for the safety of local ethnic
people.

“Though [authorities] provide a security apparatus, it can’t protect ethnic people so,
[they] will be continued to be killed in the future,” U Aung Thaung Shwe told The
Irrawaddy.

“I proposed in the Parliament to form a militia with local villagers but it was rejected.
Now, almost all the ethnic people have left their villages,” he added.

On August 3, last year, eight Mro people of Kaing Gyi village in Maungdaw were killed
by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, according to reports of state-run media.

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State-run media has made several other reports about the murders of individual Mro
villagers in Maungdaw since then.

A majority of the Mro ethnic minority live in the northern parts of Maungdaw with more
Mro in the southern parts of Maungdaw of Seinpan Myaing, Shwe Baho and Kaing Gyi.

Topics: Crime, Mro, Security

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Min Aung Khine
The Irrawaddy

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