A/HRC/39/CRP.2 following days.2182 They burned several hamlets in the surrounding area. Despite not being mentioned in official Government accounts as the location for an ARSA attack on 25 August, there is official reference to ARSA carrying out an ambush on vehicles of the security forces in Myo Thu Gyi on 26 August 2017, which resulted in an exchange of fire. 2183 Image of Myo Thu Gyi from 11 October 2017. Burnings first detected on 16 September 2017 967. Ywar Thit Kay, Ward Five in Maungdaw town, was also the location of an ARSA attack.2184 One interviewee described how on 25 August, at around 3am, she heard gunshots and a loud explosion, and joined others fleeing to a nearby village. When she returned to her house two days later, she saw military and ethnic Rakhine setting houses on fire. 2185 2182 2183 2184 2185 226 QI-035, QI-108, WI-011. Information Committee, “Breaking News 6”, (Facebook post, 28 August 2017),https://www.facebook.com/InfomationCommittee/posts/786693624837079 Information Committee, “Breaking News 2”, (Facebook post, 25 August 2017), https://www.facebook.com/InfomationCommittee/posts/785202504986191; K-154.2 YI-021.

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