A/HRC/39/CRP.2 and dripped hot wax onto our penises. Five men died from the torture. Of the remaining 20 men, 18 were able to pay a huge amount to be released. 2469 1103. Villagers from Pa Da Kar Ywarmin gyi Thit, Maungdaw Township, described how, after 9 October 2016, the police would visit their village regularly and arrest men at night. Police accused the men of being part of ARSA and demanded payment for their release. 2470 1104. Given that those “arrested”, apparently for having collaborated with ARSA, were regularly released on payment of bribes, the Mission considers that in many cases the arrests were without legal or factual basis. Rather, it was a tactic employed by Myanmar security forces to oppress, abuse and extort from Rohingya. As one Rohingya witness commented: “To the authorities you are a bad person unless you can pay, then you are good”. 2471 It may explain why the wealthiest were often targeted. However, this extortion had a disproportionate impact on poorer members of the community and others who could not pay. 1105. In some cases, detainees have not been seen again. 2472 In May or June 2017, a large group of Tatmadaw soldiers detained six or seven men from Gudar Pyin, Buthidaung Township. The group included an Imam and religious scholars. According to one interviewee, the soldiers brought a list of names of men they were looking for, and sought the assistance of the ethnic Rakhine village chairperson to identify them. 2473 The whereabouts of the men remains unknown.2474 The number of people who have disappeared in this manner is difficult to estimate. Some think their family members may have been transferred to Sittwe or Buthidaung prison and may have been charged or sentenced for alleged involvement with ARSA. Others suspect they were killed. 2475 1106. Some people do appear to have been charged and sentenced for the ARSA attacks of 2016, and Rohingya villagers provided information on relatives having been arrested and charged for such acts.2476 However, reliable or accurate information remains scarce. One interviewee from Myin Hlut, Maungdaw Township, said that, on or around 14 October 2016, the police and military came to his village and searched houses. He ran into the hills with other villagers, but a businessperson and a teacher were detained. According to the interviewee, they were later sentenced to 10 and seven years imprisonment respectively, although he had no information about the charges or trials. 2477 1107. The government initially reported that 575 persons were detained and charged in connection with the attacks.2478 No information was provided on the charges applied against those detained and if all had been formally charged with an offence. A judgment issued by Buthidaung Township’s court, dated 8 February 2018, listed 416 people tried in relation to the October and November 2016 events under sections 17/1 and 17/2 of the Unlawful Associations Act. Of the 416 people, the judgment indicates that 392 were convicted and 24 acquitted.2479 2469 2470 2471 2472 2473 2474 2475 2476 2477 2478 2479 QI-103. CI-144, LI-074. QI-114. CI-111, LI-002; United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, “FLASH REPORT: Report of OHCHR mission to Bangladesh Interviews with Rohingyas fleeing from Myanmar since 9 October 2016”, 3 February 2017. YI-014. LI-063, YI-013, YI-015, YI-016. LI-002, LI-116. CI-189, LI-104, QI-111, RI-008. QI-111. State Counsellor’s Office, “470 suspects still under investigation in northern Maungtaw attacks. |http://www.statecounsellor.gov.mm/en/node/481. According to the report, of the 575 detained on suspicion of their participation in the 9 October 2016 attacks and subsequent violence, 88 were sentenced, 11 were released, and six died in detention. It further noted that470 suspects remained under investigation. K-166. 261