A/HRC/39/CRP.2 the departure of the helicopter, the soldiers took infants from their mothers’ laps and threw them into the river. She described seeing children’s bodies “floating away”. 1665 Another witness described seeing soldiers stabbing a 10-year-old boy who was trying to run away with a knife. She described her body turning numb with fear. 1666 771. The soldiers then took women and girls in groups of between five and seven to some larger houses in the village.1667 Many women had their young children and infants with them. One mother said that she was with her daughter when the soldiers took her, her two sistersin-law, an elderly woman and three of her younger brothers-in-law aged between seven and ten years old. On the way to the houses, they were taken past the large pits in which bodies were being put. A soldier grabbed the woman’s daughter from her, and threw her into one of the pits. She did not want to leave her daughter and just stood there. A soldier then beat her repeatedly and she was forced to move on towards the houses. 1668 772. Women and girls were taken into rooms where their jewellery and money was taken from them.1669 They were beaten,1670 brutally raped1671 and frequently stabbed. Children or infants who were with them in the room were also killed or severely injured, often by stabbing.1672 The houses were then locked and set on fire.1673 The few women who survived, and who spoke with the Mission, displayed both serious burn marks and stab wounds, which were consistent with their accounts,1674 and were deeply traumatised.1675 They also described seeing dead bodies of men, women and children in the houses.1676 A survivor described how she was taken together with her sister, her mother, two neighbours and her young daughter and son to one of the houses. When she entered the house she saw women being raped. Then they were taken to an empty room where they were robbed, undressed and raped. Her sister, mother and son were killed: “My daughter woke me up saying she was getting burned. They had locked the house and set it on fire. I managed to break down the door, and my daughter and I managed to escape. I had no clothes on and my skin was very badly burned.” 1677 Another survivor recounted a similar experience: I entered the house with four of my neighbours, and three of us had babies. I knew the house. There were dead bodies on the floor, young boys and older men from our village. After we entered the house, the soldiers locked the door. One soldier raped me. They stabbed me in the back of my neck and in my abdomen. I was trying to save my baby who was only 28 days old but they threw him on the ground and he died. The other women who were there were also raped. It was late in the afternoon when I became conscious. I awoke because small flames were dropping from the roof onto my body. I was the only one who survived in that room. I could barely move but I realised I was going to burn to death. Although my baby was dead, I held him close to my heart, but I could not bring his body with me. I escaped through a small door in the kitchen, which was unlocked.1678 773. During the course of the “clearance operation”, the houses and other structures in the various Rohingya hamlets of Min Gyi were completely burned and destroyed. Satellite imagery analysis confirms that Min Gyi was destroyed by 16 September 2017 and that 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 1670 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677 1678 182 CI-046. LI-078. CI-042, CI-046, CI-197, EI-066, EI-080, EI-081, LI-075, LI-078, QI-030, QI-058, QI-059, QI-060, QI068, QI-071, WI-037, WI-038 YI-025, YI-0081. QI-071. EI-080, QI-071. EI-080, EI-081, QI-071, LI-075, LI-078. CI-046, EI-080, EI-081, LI-075, QI-071, QI-114, K-150, K-151. EI-080, EI-081, LI-078, QI-071, WI-004. CI-042, CI-046, CI-197, CI-198, EI-066, LI-075, LI-078, QI-030, QI-058, QI-059, QI-060, QI-068, QI071, WI-037, WI-038, YI-008, YI-025. EI-081, EI-102. EI-081, EI-102. EI-081, EI-102 EI-102. EI-081.