nephews of 15 and eight years old. They even killed the child in
the same way.”118
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“I found my six-month old son’s body lying next to my wife’s
body. She had been shot. My baby son was stabbed in his stomach
and his intestine and liver were coming out. When I took his small
body into my lap, I was showered with his blood.”119
•
“My husband was shot and then he had his throat cut. I was raped.
It is so difficult to say what happened. They tore off my clothes,
then six soldiers raped me, and after that two ethnic Rakhine men,
whom I recognised, raped me. They pressed my breasts and face
continuously. My face almost turned blue. I knew the ethnic
Rakhine who lived nearby.”120
•
“I hid in the toilet outhouse, some distance from our house. I saw
that our house was surrounded by 10 soldiers and some police. I
was able to see what happened. First they tied up my parents. Then
they shot my father and raped my mother; later they killed her too.
After this, they burned our house.”121
•
“One mother described how she had to choose which of her
children to save. The security forces had entered her house and
grabbed her young daughter. Her son tried to save his sister and was
attacked by the security forces. The mother watched from the other
end of the house and made the split second decision that these two
children would not live, but that she could perhaps still save her two
younger children. Her husband returned the next morning to the
village and dug through the pits of bodies until he found the corpse
of their son. They never found the body of their daughter. The
mother told the Mission with haunted eyes: ‘How can I continue
with my life having made this choice?’”122
•
“I saw my own children killed. Those who are left of my family
came with me here. My three children and my mother were killed.
They made them lie down on the ground and they cut the backs of
their necks.”123
•
“Some small children were thrown into the river…. They hacked
small children who were half alive. They were breast-feeding age
children, two years, three years, five years….” 124
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118
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122
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Id. ¶ 809.
Id. ¶ 837.
Id. ¶ 854.
Id. ¶ 862.
Id. ¶ 825.
123
Fortify Rights Report, at 60,
https://www.fortifyrights.org/downloads/Fortify_Rights_Long_Swords_July_2018.pdf.
124
Id. at 61.
CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT
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