ENGLISH DEYEA NEWS

By Narinjara | A cattle trader was hospitalized on Sunday at the Maungdaw District hospital with critical injuries after Nasaka forces fired on a cattle-smuggling boat bound for Bangladesh, said another cattle trader.
He said, "He was hospitalized yesterday as his condition was serious after he received the bullet wound from Nasaka forces."

The unidentified cattle trader along with seven other traders was traveling to Bangladesh in a machine boat loaded with 50 cattle to sell in the Bangladesh markets, where they would fetch much higher prices than in Burma.

When the boat reached a channel between Mae Kyi Chung and St. Martin Island in Bangladesh, Nasaka forces began firing on the boat.

The injured cattle trader was shot and collapsed inside the boat, and Nasaka forces arrested the traders and seized the cattle.

A similar incident took place on Friday, 5 December, when ten cattle traders from Man Aung Township were arrested by Nasaka along with 65 cattle on their way to Bangladesh.

Many cattle are exported by Arakanese farmers illegally via sea routes to be sold in Bangladesh during the Eid religious festival. During the Muslim holiday, cattle from Arakan State fetch a premium price in Bangladesh markets, enticing Arakanese farmers to export the cattle illegally, in spite of Burma's ban on such trading. #