Now electric fence adds to landmines to jepardise fleeing Rohingyas

Myanmar army has installed high-voltage electric fence along its border with Bangladesh, posing even more challenges for the Rohingya Muslims seeking entry into Bangladesh or returning home in the Rakhaine State.
Around 500,000 Rohingyas crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar fleeing shootings and arson attacks by Myanmar soldiers and Buddhist monks, sources said.
The fence had already been installed along 30 points, but the barricades are being supplied with generators. Myanmar army is building traps to kill innocent Rohingya Muslims.
"Since electricity was deployed, many people have received shock and it is been said some have died. A woman from the Bangladeshi border was electrocuted and her eardrums ruptured," a source said.
Myanmar is one of the world's most heavily mined countries after decades of conflict between the military and various ethnic rebel groups.
Several Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar were injured by separate landmines blasts. They were carried across to the Bangladesh side of the border and are now in a hospital receiving treatment.
 "That happened on the Myanmar side in the north of the border area," a senior border guard said. Myanmar military has planted the mines.
"Some mines were placed there, then someone stepped into it, and it exploded," he added.
Several eyewitnesses said they had seen Myanmar security forces, including military personnel and Border Guard Police, planting mines close to the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.
One Rohingya man, who is in hiding near the crossroads, said he and others had found at least six mines planted in the same area. He and the other men had put their own lives at risk to dig up two of the mines to protect other villagers.
Abdus Salam, a Rohingya who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh on Saturday, told the Daily Observer that he saw the Myanmar army planting landmines and erecting high-voltage electric fence along the border