- Web Master
- June 11, 2019
Narinjara News, 15 June 2022
At least six Rakhine nationals from Paletwa township in south Chin State had gone missing for nearly two weeks
after the junta troops abducted them.
According to family sources, they were abducted in the last week of May and first week of June last after a
clash broke out between the military
personnel and Arakan Army (AA) members near Abound Thar village under Paletwa township.
Talking to Narinjara News, a relative of shopkeeper U Mae Kyaw, one of the detainees, informed that the family members are
worried about the detainees as
they have not been able to contact them after their arrests. On the other hand, the military authority has
not reported anything to the concerned families.
Other detainees are identified as U Maung Win, head of 100 houses in Myoma ward of Paletwa locality, U
Thar Tun Aung, the Abound Thar village
administrator and three other villagers from the same area.
They were initially taken to number LIB 289 battalion based in Paletwa for interrogation, but nothing revealed
thereafter about their whereabouts.
"No contact has been made since their arrests. It is now over10 days since their abductions. We even went to the
police station but they denied any
information. The junta’s silence has worried the concerned families,” said the relative.
According to a convinced source, they were arrested suspecting their links with AA members.
However, the family members denied the allegation
and termed them ordinary
individuals.
Some Junta soldiers
were also killed in the
gunfighting that took place near to Abound Thar village on 26 May. Since then, the junta authority started
arresting Rakhine people with the
suspicion of maintaining links with the AA.