(Direct translation of news articles from Narinjara News Agency.)
Rohingya-Taliban fighters in Bangladesh. |
According to the NarinjaraNews Agency the Rohingya terrorists have also kidnapped three Burma army soldiers
and fled back into Bangladesh. The cross-border terrorist attack took
place in the Maungdaw Township of north Arakan.
The news leaked from the
army circle in Maungdaw described the terrorist attack as an ambush on a 13-men
unarmed construction team from Burma Army General Engineering unit building the
Burma-Bangladesh Friendly Road on the borderline in the area known as Na-Sa-Ka
Territory (1).
Unoffical sources from Burma
army have so far claimed the killers and kidnappers are the RSO terrorists but
the Narinjara News couldn’t independently confirm it yet.
“The
Bengali-Muslim terrorists raided the construction site on yesterday about 6 in
the evening and an officer was killed and 3 unarmed engineering soldiers were
captured. The rest of the 13-men crew managed to escape. The three men are
still missing and we think they were already killed,”
said a local Buddhist from the Aung-tha-byay village in the area where the
terrorist attack occurred.
A road construction unit of Burmese Army. |
“The
site was in the area around Mile Post (1), (2), and (3) at the east of Bandoola
in Upper Aung-tha-byay. Everybody heard
the gunshots and the army troops from Taung-byo immediately went there. At
about 9 in the night our army units fought off the RSO terrorists and that skirmish
lasted for about 5 minutes. There were casualties on both sides but we don’t
know how many.”
“The
raid happened during time the army soldiers were at the Mee-daik in the
Na-Sa-Ka Territory (3) helping the villagers celebrating the Buddhist
ceremonies. The RSO terrorists knew that news and took that opportunity to raid
the unarmed engineering troops by the border, bastard Muslims,” added
the abbot of the local Buddhist monastery.
The Light-Infantry-Battalion
LIB-353 based in Butheedaung town has reinforced the local troops in Maungdaw
since this morning.
A Burmese army road crew with a bulldozer. |
7 Nov 2012: Burmese Army
Reinforcements on the Border
Burmese troops had been
searching for the terrorist group kidnapping three Burmese army engineers up
and down on the borderline between border posts 51 and 52. The Burmese engineer
killed in yesterday ambush was Road Officer (Lan-bo) Kyaw Kyaw Wai and the three
engineering soldiers kidnapped are Engineering Sergeant Khin Moe Aung and two
engineering privates.
Burmese troops on the Bangladesh border. |
Burmese army is now
demanding Bangladesh authorities to return the kidnapped soldiers alive to
Burma side and if Bangladeshis refuses they will cross the border to search for
the kidnapped themselves.
Both Burma army and
Bangladesh army are now sending reinforcements to the tense border and the
situation is quickly becoming explosive.
Border-Guards-Bangladesh (BGB) troops on the Burma border. |
8 Nov 2012: Two Armies Meet
on the Border
Burmese army has so far
rejected the exchange offer from the RSO terrorists to return the kidnapped
three Burmese engineering soldiers through the Border-Guard-Bangladesh (BGB).
Burmese are still demanding
for the immediate and unconditional release of three engineering soldiers and
threatening to cross the border to attack the known terrorist camps on the
Bangladesh side of the border.
Unofficial negotiations have
been going on between Burmese army and BGB since the RSO terrorists crossed the
border on November 6, ambushed the Burmese engineering team, killed a Burmese
engineer officer, and kidnapped three Burmese engineer soldiers.
Border meeting of BGB and Burmese army officers. |
High-ranking officials from
both Burmese army and the Bangladeshi BGB officially met yesterday to
peacefully solve the immediate problem of finding the three kidnapped Burmese
engineers taken into Bangladesh territory on November 6. The official meeting
took place at the Naikhongchari BGB (15) camp in southern Bandarban district.
Burmese had been accusing
that RSO the Rohingya-Taliban terrorists were behind the ambush and kidnapping,
but the Bangladeshis were still denying the existence of RSO camps on their side of the border.
But the local Bengalis both Muslims
and Buddhists have been telling the tales for very long time now that
heavily-armed RSO men in their camouflage fatigue were seen moving unrestricted
in the Naikhongchari area.
10 Nov 2012: Tense Border
after the Kidnappings
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be updated later: