A/HRC/39/CRP.2 • placing dogs inside or outside a cell to terrify the victim. 302 181. The Mission received credible reports of other torture techniques, requiring further investigation. 182. Perpetrators often used many of these torture techniques simultaneously. For example, a victim mentioned that he was detained and tortured on 12 June 2012 at a monastery in a village near Myitkyina in Kachin State. He was suspected of being a KIA member: I was questioned by many Tatmadaw soldiers from Light Infantry Division 37. They asked me my ethnicity and where I was from. The soldiers said that villagers from my native village are all members or supporters of the KIA. I responded that I was never a KIA member. They insisted and wanted me to admit by force that I was with the KIA. The soldiers kicked me in the stomach and on the chest, and slapped me in the face. I was beaten on the head with the butt of their guns. I was hit so many times on the head and on my ears that I could not hear anymore and my face was very swollen. They hit me on the head with a wooden stick until the stick broke. They took my legs and placed them in between two bamboo tree trunks and then jumped on my legs attached to the trunks until I could not walk anymore. I had to be dragged out by soldiers. I spent two nights and three days at the monastery being tortured.303 Locations 183. Victims reported that the torture and ill-treatment took place in various places, including in the SaYaPa office in Myitkyina, 304 but mostly in their own towns or villages in locations including houses, forest areas,305 monasteries,306 military camps,307 as well as official places of detention.308 Most torture took place in or near villages and towns. 184. Usually, the torture ceased when the victims were transferred to official detention locations.309 For example, a victim mentioned the torture stopped when he was transferred to Myitkyina prison from the SaYaPa office in Myitkyina, Kachin State in July 2012. 310 185. Torture also often took place in military camps. A victim reported that he was tortured while detained at a military camp in Mogaung Township, Kachin State, in August 2017 shortly after the Tatmadaw’s incursion in the Kasung region. The victim reported that he was apprehended by the Tatmadaw under suspicions of being part of the KIA. He said: I was taken to the military base and tortured by two soldiers for three days. We were a group of ten civilians detained together, and there were 20 soldiers surrounding us. I was beaten all over my body, especially on my back and chest. The Tatmadaw tied my hands together behind my back with a rope. They also laced a rope around my neck. They asked me, “Are most people in the village KIA members?” I answered that there were simple farmers. They repeatedly asked who in the village was KIA and beat me more. The soldiers who were beating me told me that all Kachin men are KIA. The Tatmadaw did not want to understand that we were villagers. They also beat me with the butt of their guns and showed me a sword to scare me. They took a KIA uniform and forced me to wear it. I never admitted that I was a KIA and kept on repeating that I was an ordinary man.311 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 48 PI-037, PI-038. PI-056. PI-052, PI-055, PI-056. DI-066, PI-035, PI-074, PI-075, PI-086, PI-088. PI-056, PI-074, PI-111. PI-035, PI-038, PI-044, PI-052. PI-038, V-133. PI-052, PI-109. PI-052. PI-044.