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“The military took and arrested around 50 people. They brought
them to the military camp … and set fire to where they kept them.
One was my own brother. There was a small hut, and they put all
the people in there and set it on fire.”125
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“As soon as we got on the boat, they shot at us…. Foyezur
Rahman was my father. My daughter was Sofia. She was 18. They
were both shot in the back. As soon as the military shot them, they
stopped moving. We brought their dead bodies here [to
Bangladesh] and buried them.”126
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“I saw her taken from the house and raped by military soldiers. It
happened outside, beside a house. We watched from inside the
house. After they raped her, they killed her…. [O]ne person [raped
her], then she was taken to the road, and he cut her neck and cut
her breasts off.”127
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106.
In December 2017, Médicins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) (“MSF”)
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published estimates of Rohingya deaths between August 25 and September 24, 2017—the month
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after the “clearance operations” began—based on surveys of refugees in Bangladesh. MSF
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estimated that “8,170 deaths were due to violence …, including 1,247 children under five years
13
of age.… Cause of death by shooting accounted for 69.4% of these deaths; being ‘burned to
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death at home’ accounted for 8.8%; being beaten to death accounted for 5.0%; sexual violence
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leading to death for 2.6%; and death by landmine for 1.0%.”
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107.
MSF noted that “the rates of mortality captured here are likely to be
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underestimates, as the data does not account for those people who have not yet been able to flee
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Myanmar, or for families who were killed in their entirety.” 128 The U.N. Mission similarly
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“concluded that the estimated number of more than 10,000 deaths during the August-September
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2017 ‘clearance operations’ alone is likely to be conservative.” 129
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126
127
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Id. at 62.
Id. at 65.
Id. at 69.
Rohingya crisis – a summary of findings from six pooled surveys, MÉDICINS SANS
FRONTIÈRES (Dec. 9, 2017), https://www.msf.org/myanmarbangladesh-rohingya-crisis-summaryfindings-six-pooled-surveys.
129
UNHRC Report, ¶ 1482,
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1643079/files/A_HRC_39_CRP-2-EN.pdf.
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