A/HRC/39/CRP.2 763. The villagers who made it to the shore were then effectively trapped, on one side by the river, and on the other side by soldiers. “We were running to the sandy field as we didn’t know where to go. There was nowhere to flee”, reported an elderly woman. 1646 764. Some attempted to swim across the river eastward to Wet Kyein and Pa Da Kar Ywar Thit on the far side. Some made it across.1647 Numerous persons, especially elderly and children, drowned.1648 Others were shot by the military while trying to cross the river. 1649 765. One interviewee recounted that he was shot by soldiers but managed to get away by jumping into the river, where he saw another man shot just in front of him. He then swam across the river and saw bodies floating. He could also hear shooting and screaming from the shore.1650 Several accounts described bodies of men, women and children floating in the river.1651 Dozens of bodies were recovered by a group of men at the other side of the river. 1652 766. Those who remained on the shore, who numbered in the hundreds, were then rounded up. The soldiers separated women and children from the men. 1653 Soldiers then systematically killed the men.1654 As one witness described: The first round of shooting was like a rain of bullets. The second round was slow as the soldiers killed the men individually. They aimed a gun at each man and shot.1655 767. Soldiers then killed those who had survived gunshot wounds with long knives, including children.1656 One woman described how she saw her husband shot, after which his throat was slit,1657 and another woman, who lost seven children, reported that: Soldiers separated the groups into men and women. The men were all in one group, and were killed. Men who were not shot dead, who were struggling or severely injured, were killed with a knife.1658 768. The dead bodies were then thrown into pits dug by the military and ethnic Rakhine, covered with tarpaulin, and set on fire with gasoline. 1659 They put all dead bodies into those three pits and then set them on fire. I think that the military used petrol to burn the dead bodies because flames from the fire rose up very high and fast.1660 769. Soldiers also removed jewellery and other valuable items from the dead bodies before setting them on fire.1661 770. Soldiers then turned to the women and children who, after being separated from the men, were forced to sit in a lowered area on the shore. Some of the children were shot, 1662 some thrown into the river, 1663 and others thrown onto a fire. 1664 One witness said that, after 1646 1647 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 LI-078. CI-198, LI-095, WI-037. CI-197, LI-097. QI-066, QI-067, QI-068, YI-025. QI-067. CI-040, CI-042, EI-066, LM-018, QI-058, QI-066, QI-067, YI-025. CI-040, CI-042, CI-197, LI-097, LM-018. CI-197, CI-198, EI-066, LI-078, LI-095, QI-058, QI-059, QI-060, QI-067, QI-071. CI-042, CI-046, CI-197, CI-198, EI-066, EI-081, LI-075, LI-078, QI-030, QI-058, QI-059, QI-060, QI071. CI-046. CI-197, LI-078, QI-68, QI-071, WI-037. EI-102. LI-078. CI-041, CI-042, CI-046, CI-144, CI-197, CI-198, EI-066, EI-102, LI-075, LI-095, LI-097, QI-030, QI-058, QI-059, QI-067, QI-068, QI-071, WI-038, YI-008, YI-025, V-064, V-065. CI-046. CI-046, CI-197, LI-098, QI-068. LI-078. CI-046, CI-144, CI-197, EI-102, LI-078, V-064, V-065. EI-102, LI-097. 181