A/HRC/39/CRP.2 later fled to Bangladesh. Largely from Buthidaung and Rathedaung Townships, the overall picture painted was one of extremely difficult conditions, and a significant deterioration of conditions in comparison with pre-August 2017.2714 1195. Interviewees reported a further tightening of restrictions on freedom of movement, viewed as confinement to their villages. 2715 In some locations, villagers reported being confined to their house compounds. 2716 These restrictions, which included an inability to access markets and livelihoods,2717 led to a severe lack of food.2718 This scarcity was compounded by restrictions on all humanitarian food aid to northern Rakhine State.2719 These targeted actions to deny access to food appear to constitute a policy of forcing Rohingya to flee through food deprivation. 2720 As one Rohingya man who arrived in Bangladesh in February 2018 from his village in Nyaung Pin Gyi village tract, southern Rathedaung Township, stated: The WFP did not deliver the rations for four months, and it was hard to feed the family every day. There were some reserves, but it was very difficult. There was sometimes only enough to eat once a day, and sometimes there was no food.2721 1196. In remaining Rohingya villages, security forces have continued to engage in oppression. They have engaged in violent intimidation, sporadic violence, including beatings and killings, sexual and gender-based violence and property violations, including burning of properties and theft and extortion.2722 The constant fear of violence from the security forces and uncertainty as to the future force many to flee. Of particular concern, many interviewees noted that Tatmadaw soldiers have continued the practice of coming into villages and violently rounding up men, arbitrarily detaining them and taking them away. Some of those detained have not been seen again.2723 Some who were taken away were reportedly ill-treated or tortured.2724 One man taken away in such a rounding up reported being tortured in detention, but eventually released on payment of a bribe. 2725 1197. Security forces also continued to engage in sexual and gender-based violence, including the abduction and rape of Rohingya women, some of whom have not been seen again.2726 One Rohingya man described how in late October 2017, one Tatmadaw soldier and one BGP officer entered his neighbour’s house, tied up an elderly woman and raped the two younger women inside. As he explained: The two women were screaming and crying that they were being raped. I could hear noises and that they were being slapped. The men stayed around two hours with the women and then they left. I saw the women afterwards. They were bleeding and they both had bite marks on their cheeks and their breasts had been stabbed. After that incident, I decided to leave for Bangladesh.2727 2714 2715 2716 2717 2718 2719 2720 2721 2722 2723 2724 2725 2726 2727 CI-025, CI-100, CI-101, CI-102, CI-103, CI-107, CI-108, CI-151, LI-049, LI-051, LI-057, LI-058, LI-059, LI-060, LI-061, LI-077, LI-085, LI-086, LI-087, LI-088, LI-091, LI-092, QI-040, QI-064, QI065, RI-014, RI-015, WI-014, WI-041, YI-004, YI-005, YI-012, YI-026, ZI-004. LI-107, V-067. LI-085, LI-088, LI-091. CI-100, CI-102, LI-091, LI-092. CI-100, CI-102, CI-103, CI-107, LI-057, LI-061, LI-085, LI-086, LI-092, QI-040, WI-014. LI-092; See this chapter, section B.3: Restrictions on access to food, livelihoods, health care and education. The Mission takes note that Amnesty International has called this a policy of forced starvation. Amnesty International, We Will Destroy Everything, pp. 101-103. LI-092. CI-100, CI-101, CI-102, CI-108, CI-151, LI-041, LI-057, LI-059, LI-077, LI-085, LI-086, LI-087, QI-040, WI-014, YI-026. CI-100, CI-101, CI-102, CI-107, CI-108, CI-151, LI-059, LI-085, LI-086, LI-092, QI-040, V-067. LI-057, LI-087. LI-057. CI-151, LI-057, LI-085, LI-091, LI-092, V-067. LI-057. 283