Jamila Hanan · @JamilaHanan
24th Oct 2016 from TwitLonger
What happened to the #Rohingya at Kyet Yoe Pyin 12-15th October 2016?
What happened to the #Rohingya at Kyet Yoe Pyin 12-15th October 2016? This is my call for independent inquiry.
These are all the initial reports that I gathered regarding attacks on the village hamlet of Kyet Yoe Pyin (Rohingya name: Keyari parang/farang) that were coming out of Maungdaw from 12th to the 15th October.
You can see the places in question on the map here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BiG6nG9abMhp4YM3YDOqcU1jeLY&usp=sharing
I believe this demands immediate access by UN inspectors and an independent UN inquiry to establish the full facts and to ensure immediate and future protection of the surviving Rohingya there.
Wed 12 Oct
7am Military suddenly turn up at the village of Keyari parang and start burning isolated houses on the fringe of the village. Two onlookers, one of them a boy, attempt to flee. The military catch them and kill them with sharp objects. It is noticed that many of the attackers are dressed in civilian clothing.
http://myanmarobserver.com/index.php/news/rohingya-news/317-two-including-child-killed-during-keyari-parang-raid
Tweet at 9am The military opens fire on Kaerifarang of Maungdaw (now). They want the Rohingya to leave.
https://twitter.com/Aungaungsittwe/status/786038858865442816
9am At least 50 houses are burnt by the military at Nget Kyar Pyu (Nai Sa Pru) and Kiyari Prang
http://www.arakantimes.org/2016/10/12/dozens-of-houses-burnt-in-maungdaw-north/
Military enter Kyet Yoe Pyin village and burn houses.
http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2016/10/arrests-mass-killings-torching-houses.html
Four Rohingya from Kye Yoe Pyin are reported as killed
https://kaladanpress.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/kill-arrest-arson-rape-and-loot-on-rohingya-in-maungdaw/
54 Rohingya from Kye Yoe Pyin are reported as arrested
https://kaladanpress.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/kill-arrest-arson-rape-and-loot-on-rohingya-in-maungdaw/
The army shoot dead a man and a child in the village of Keyari parang and set fire to houses on the fringe of the village (they return the following day to burn the rest of the houses down).
http://myanmarobserver.com/index.php/news/rohingya-news/319-keyari-parang-looted-and-razed-to-the-ground
11.30am 7 military trucks have surrounded a village in Kyet Yoe Pyin village tract in the front, and soldiers are said to have set mines in the back (according to a Rohingya man in the village - after that he could not be contacted).
http://www.aungaungsittwe.com/ongoing-rohingya-genocide-myanmar/
Tweet at 1.20pm KariFarang market (400 shops) is on fire, the whole village completely burnt down.
https://twitter.com/Aungaungsittwe/status/786466806558957569
Thu 13 Oct
In Kyet Yoe Pyin (Kyariprang) village, a total of 162 houses and a market with more than 150 Rohingya shops have now been burnt to the ground by Myanmar military. It has been under attack since Wednesday.
http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2016/10/arrests-mass-killings-torching-houses.html
Video footage of villagers fleeing their homes from Kyet Yoe Pyin (Kyariprang) in the morning, as their homes were burnt by the military.
https://twitter.com/nslwin/status/786440748954779649
A compilation of video footage of Rohingya fleeing Kyari Prang (Kyet Yoe Pyin)
https://youtu.be/2g9eQ2DcJuk
A report published later on the 19th Oct puts the total number of houses burnt at 803 from Kyet Yoe Yin village [Pyin] (out of a total of 1368 houses across 5 hamlets with a total population of 10,010). Affected hamlets include wa Gyi hamlet, West hamlet, Lu Tin Farang hamlet and Fawr Zar Gar Fara hamlet. Two thirds of the market was also burnt and cattle, goats and chickens were loaded onto trucks and taken away.
http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2016/10/urgent-humanitarian-assistance-needed.html
KariFarang market (400 shops) is on fire, the whole village completely burnt down.
https://twitter.com/Aungaungsittwe/status/786466806558957569
Kya Ri prang in Maungdaw is looted and burned to the ground.
http://myanmarobserver.com/index.php/news/rohingya-news/332-kya-ri-prang-remains-tense-as-another-corpse-discovered
The army enters the village of Keyari parang in the morning, for the second time in two days, and launches a full scale attack using rocket launchers. Before the attack, civilian collaborators from the Rakhine community entered the houses and loot every item of value.
http://myanmarobserver.com/index.php/news/rohingya-news/319-keyari-parang-looted-and-razed-to-the-ground
Report published on 22nd, states that Keyari prang had at least 700 homes and was destroyed.
http://myanmarobserver.com/index.php/news/rohingya-news/345-neighbourhood-adjoining-kya-ri-prang-also-destroyed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Fri 14 Oct
9am Military set fire to Kyet Yoe Pyin (Kiyari Ferang) village. Many Rohingya houses and property is burnt down and the villagers have to flee. No authority is sent to put out the blaze.
http://www.rvisiontv.com/military-offensive-rohingya-civilians-continue/
10am, military personnel enter the village tract of Kyet Yoe Pyin (Kiyari Ferang) and set fire to the whole hamlet, Lu Pann Pyin and then another hamlet called Ywar Ma. Some women hiding in their homes are shot dead then burnt in their homes. Approx 500 homes are burnt here in total.
http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2016/10/a-brutal-day-of-extrajudicial-killings.html
“Military using to torch Rohingya homes in ‘KyetYoePyin (Kiyari Ferang):They raid raid a home & order all household members to come out on pretext on investigations. Then, they send some Rakhine and Hindu youth brought along with them to the back of their (Rohingya’s) home to set fire.In some other situation, the military directly use fire-launchers to set the homes on fire. Hundreds of Rohingya homes have been burnt down in the village since yesterday morning.” http://www.rvisiontv.com/17811-2/
Rohingyas Fleeing Army Attacks KyetYoePyin Village in Maungdaw on 14.10.2016
https://youtu.be/L1QxJm-_mv4
16 Rohingya are killed by military in Kyet Yoe Pyin including a 3 year old and a 6 year old girl
https://twitter.com/nslwin/status/787227188483465217
https://twitter.com/nslwin/status/787337955186765824
4pm Initial report that military raid Luban Lyin hamlet (Luti Frang) in Kyet Yoe Pyin (Kiyari Farang) village tract, N Maungdaw, and kill 14 Rohingya, including Eliyas’s family (5 of his family killed in total, with their two young children). Other villagers run away but Eliyas’s sister has given birth just two hours earlier so his family stayed. The family of 5 are killed included the mother of Eliyas age 57, Monuara age 26, Mayeema age 22, the 6 year old daughter of Monuara, and the 3 year old daughter of Eliyas. Nayeema is still alive when the villagers returned, but the military return at 7am the next morning and bury the bodies in a nearby paddy field, plus Nayeema who is taken also to be buried whilst she is still alive.
http://www.thestateless.com/2016/10/15/maungdaw-myanmar-armys-special-ops-killing-of-all-family-members/
Tweet by @aungaungsittwe: Eliyas and his family arrested, tortured and killed, including 2 year old and 7 year old son. 181 Rohingya arrested.
https://twitter.com/Aungaungsittwe/status/787135899280642048
More details emerge here:
“On Friday, at around 4pm, the military entered the village and killed at least six women and children from the same family. Three other women who were in their company were kidnapped and taken to an unknown location.
The village tract was burned and looted earlier on Thursday and at least two were killed on Wednesday. So when the military approached the area on Friday afternoon, everyone ran away. However, the female members of one family stayed behind as one of the women had just given birth at around 2pm.
The military finding the women, opened fire on five of them. They then drove their bayonet in the vagina and stomach of the women. Witnesses who found the mutilated corpses of five of the family members in the evening after the military had left suggested the women might still have been alive when the military used the bayonets. The new born child was also mutilated with the bayonet, report witnesses. One of the woman still had life left in her, but she would succumb to her injuries the next day.
The deceased has been identified Rokimun Nisa, 57 and her two daughters Monowara, 26, Nayeema, 22, her grandson Yusuf, 7,and Solim, 12. Yusuf and Solim are the sons of a man named Elias, who is also the son and brother of the deceased women. The new born baby who had been bayonetted to death did not have a name. Both the children and the women were tortured with bayonets. Nayeema was the one who survived till the next day.
Three other women who were with this group was picked up by the military and taken to an unknown location. Their identities could not be known and it is not confirmed whether they are part of the same family or had stayed behind to assist in the childbirth. Their fate is unknown but it is likely they will be raped in military custody.
It is alleged the security forces of the country are involved in the systematic rape of women from minority communities.
One source has claimed a three year sister of Yusuf has also been killed, but the claim cannot be confirmed.
Villagers were making preparations for the funeral of the deceased when the military struck again on Saturday morning. Since then, the military has taken up positions in the vicinity making it impossible for locals to go back.”
http://myanmarobserver.com/index.php/news/rohingya-news/328-keyari-parang-family-massacre-three-women-and-three-children-bayoneted
Arakan Times reports the same incident:
“AT Correspondent, Maungdaw
At least seven members of a family were brutally gunned down by Myanmar government forces at a time at Kya Yu Pyin (Kiyariprang) of Maungdaw north on Friday, October 14, 2016.
According to our correspondent report, army and BGP personnel entered the Kya Yu Pyin (Kiyari Prang) village on October 14, 2016, and started firing gun indiscriminately. When the army started setting fire on the houses and gun firing indiscriminately, all the villagers fled to other nearby villages fearing the killing and arrest, but only the members of this family could not flee due to new born to a woman of the family.
The military entered the house and cruelly killed the six members of the family including the new born by shooting and slaughtering. After killing, army buried them in a big hole so that none could take photo of the deceased.
The bodies were identified as;
Rokim Nisa D/O : Ahamed Safa 65 W/O : Anisul Mustafa ,
Monuara Anis 28 D/O: Anisul Mustafa including a new born 2 Day Old Baby
Niama Anis 22 D/O : Anisul Mustafa
Yusuf 6 S/O Md Ilias’s
Salem 11 S/O Sayed Karim
It is also reported that of the same villagers has also been killed by army today, October 15, 2016. The members of the family were killed by army on October 14, 2016 but buried on October 15, 2016 in the village where there is not any other villager left as all the houses were torched to ashes.”
http://www.arakantimes.org/2016/10/15/6-members-of-a-family-killed-in-maungdaw/
5pm Military set fire to Kyet Yoe Pyin (Kiyari Ferang) village in the morning and it is still burning. Hundreds of houses have been burnt and also religious structures are also on fire. It is heard that the military have shot a Rohingya boy in the same village.
http://www.rvisiontv.com/military-offensive-rohingya-civilians-continue/
Rohingyas Fleeing Army Attacks KyetYoePyin Village in Maungdaw on 14.10.2016
https://youtu.be/L1QxJm-_mv4
Video footage of homes burnt in Kyari Prang,North Maungdaw,
https://youtu.be/8mb5ziIBaxI
Two more Rohingya girls are raped and killed by the military. They were fleeing the village of Keyari Parang that had been razed to the ground the previous day, walking with one of the groups of villagers that were walking to the Bangladesh border (with approx. 15 - 20 in each group) when the military came and grabbed them. Later a search party found their two mutilated bodys. They have been identified as Samira Begum, age 19, and Rokeya Khatun, age 17.
http://myanmarobserver.com/index.php/news/rohingya-news/326-two-more-girls-raped-and-killed-as-keyari-parang-on-the-move
Sat 15 Oct
7am Military return to Luban Lyin hamlet (Luti Frang) in Kyet Yoe Pyin (Kiyari Farang) village tract, N Maungdaw, to bury the bodies that they killed the day before. They also take Nayeem, who is still alive but injured, to be buried with the rest of her family.
http://www.thestateless.com/2016/10/15/maungdaw-myanmar-armys-special-ops-killing-of-all-family-members/
Fri 21 Oct
A man has seen least 50 Rohingya corpses along the roadside after Yay Kyaw bridge in Kyet Yoe Pyin in Maungdaw
https://twitter.com/nslwin/status/789394882381041664
If anyone would like any further information regarding this research you can tweet me @jamilahanan or email me jamilahanan1@gmail.com