May 21,2017
Army and BGP forces raided Diyal Tali in Maungdaw North on Friday,allegedly looking for terrorists.
On Friday at around 5.30am, the forces besieged the village. Later as morning came, they carried a house by house search and detained some of the men who had not managed to escape.
Later however they also detaied some of the women and children.Everybody was herded into a fied where they were made to stand in the sun for hours.
The names of the detained men were checked against a list they had brought with them. During this time, some of the men were slapped. Dozens of men were then taken to the nearby army camp.
The detainees have all been since released. They however allege they were badly beaten up by the sodiers even though their names did not match any of the ‘terrorists’ on the list.
