A/HRC/39/CRP.2 1080. The group of village elders recorded the impact of the “area clearance operation” on their village tract. They listed approximately 170 houses as burned and destroyed, together with two mosques, two or three madrassas and 16 shops. The shops were also looted and more than 1,000 animals and dozens of motorcycles were stolen. 2426 Credible satellite imagery analysis confirms that at least 65 structures were burned and destroyed in the village tract between 10 and 17 November 2017.2427 1081. The perpetrators of the violations were Tatmadaw soldiers, accompanied by police. 2428 1082. While the majority of villagers from Pwint Hpyu Chaung eventually fled to Bangladesh, a number returned in late 2016 or early 2017 and lived in tents and makeshift shelters, receiving international humanitarian assistance. Since the 2017 “clearance operations”, it appears that the majority of the villagers, if not all, have relocated to Bangladesh.2429 Dar Gyi Zar 1083. Dar Gyi Zar village tract, known to the Rohingya as Choto Go Zi Bil, is made up of a series of hamlets, located three to four kilometres south of Pwint Hpyu Chaung in northern Maungdaw Township. The Tatmadaw launched “area clearance operations” in Dar Gyi Zar on 12 November 2016 and in Yae Khat Chaung Gwa Son village tract, directly to the north. The operation in Dar Gyi Zar continued for two days. 1084. The “area clearance operation” commenced in Dar Gyi Zar with the arrival of two or three helicopters, from which soldiers opened fire using automatic weapons. This caused panic, with villagers running to seek shelter. People were shot and killed or injured, both outside and inside houses. Shooting from the helicopters continued for up to two hours. At least one woman was shot and killed inside her house and witnesses saw up to 15 other bodies of people killed by gunfire from the helicopters. 2430 A number of villagers, particularly women and children, headed to the Kula Bil area in the south of the village tract. 1085. The following morning, a group of up to 200 soldiers entered Dar Gyi Zar along the main road. They opened fire in an indiscriminate manner and started to burn houses, including by using “launchers”. People again fled; some were shot as they ran.2431 One witness estimated that he saw 16 people shot.2432 People ran and hid in the paddy fields. From there they watched as the village was systematically burned. 2433 Through the course of the day, nearly all of the houses in the village were burned.2434 1086. Tatmadaw soldiers captured a group of up to 200 men, women and children, and took them to a paddy field, where they were told to kneel. People were beaten, following which the men and boys of approximately 12 years or older were separated from the group. The men were told to take off their shirts and the women were searched and robbed of jewellery, being touched inappropriately in the process. The women and younger children were then taken and held in a mud-walled house, while the men and boys were kept outside. The women then heard repeated gunfire and the screams of the men and boys outside. 2435 1087. At sunset, the soldiers left and the women, girls and young children were able to leave the house. The bodies of the men and boys had been put in a pile, or series of piles, and burned using hay, harvested rice and the removed shirts. A number of other witnesses saw 2426 2427 2428 2429 2430 2431 2432 2433 2434 2435 CI-142, CI-143, LI-133. Human Rights Watch, Updated Damage Assessment of Affected Villages in Maungdaw District, 18 November 2016. CI-142, LI-127, LI-133, QI-100. LI-127, QI-104. CI-139, LI-123, LI-125, LI-135, QI-101, XI-009. CI-139, LI-123, LI-135. LI-123. CI-139, LI-135. CI-139, LI-123, LI-135. LI-125, LI-126. 257