A/HRC/39/CRP.2 bamboo walls.1987 Villagers were shot in other locations where they had found shelter, including through rapid arms fire into forested hills where they had fled. 1988 892. Many Rohingya were killed in targeted attacks too. The Mission has provided detailed accounts above of corroborated mass killings perpetrated in the villages of Min Gyi, Maung Nu, Chut Pyin, Gu Dar Pyin, the villages of Koe Tan Kauk. Dozens, and in some cases hundreds, of men, women and children were killed. Additional organized mass killings are likely to have taken place. Witnesses reported seeing bodies of large numbers of Rohingya, including those with gunshot and machete wounds, as well as decapitated heads, in burned villages en route to Bangladesh.1989 The Mission is concerned that other such mass killings remain undocumented. Moreover, other “clearance operations” in the villages of northern Rakhine State verified by the Mission resulted in a significant numbers of casualties, with numbers of killed often in the dozens. These incidents also constitute mass killings, although seemingly implemented in a less organized manner. 893. In addition to these instances of mass targeted killings, members of the security forces shot individual persons, including at point blank range, 1990 and executed people, including those injured, by slitting their throats using long knives. In some cases, these targeted killings occurred as Tatmadaw soldiers and other security forces systematically moved from house to house, pulling people out of their homes and executing them, or shooting them inside their houses, or as they left their houses, often in front of family members.1991 Ethnic Rakhine, working alongside the Tatmadaw and other security forces, also targeted and killed victims with long knives. 894. A woman from Kyein Chaung village tract, northern Maungdaw Township, saw many family members executed. Her mother-in-law was shot and killed and her husband was shot while fleeing. Two of her children were also killed, while a third child sustained multiple stab wounds to the head, but survived: Soldiers took to me into a house and beat me and my youngest child. He was one and a half years old, and he died as a result of the beating. My four year old son’s hand was being held by my daughter, who was also stabbed in the head. He started crying and then the military stabbed him and he died. It was with a long knife, the length of a forearm. After they killed him, the soldiers washed the knife. 1992 895. Another man described the killings of a group of women and children inside a house in Kyet Yoe Pyin village tract, Maungdaw Township: A pregnant woman in labour was being assisted by a midwife as well as a number of other female relatives. I saw approximately five soldiers enter the house and heard a few gunshots. Later I went back and saw the dead bodies of an elderly woman, the mother, a two-year old girl, and another girl who was 16 to 18 years old and the newborn baby.1993 896. Tatmadaw soldiers and the ethnic Rakhine used swords, knives or machetes, known locally as “da”, to injure and kill, most notably through the intentional slitting of throats of Rohingya villagers. Numerous interviewees shared accounts of such killings that they had witnessed.1994 One man, who was hiding in a paddy field, watched as a group of soldiers took his 70-year old mother from their house. One soldier slit her throat with a large knife, leaving her dead on the ground.1995 Another young woman from a village in northern Maungdaw also 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 LI-025, LI-027, LI-029, LI-039, LI-041, LI-099, LI-107, QI-111, YI-011. WI-007. BI-013, CI-014, CI-016, CI-023, CI-183, QI-063, QI-065, QI-116. EI-024, LI-011, LI-027, LI-030, QI-035, QI-038, WI-039, WI-007, WI-010, XI-006; See this chapter, section D.1.a: Most serious incidents. EI-024, LI-011, LI-027, QI-038, WI-039, XI-006. WI-004. CI-111. CI-029, CI-045, EI-029, EI-034, LI-003, LI-008, LI-010, LI-011, LI-012, LI-013, LI-063, LI-072, QI028, WI-001, WI-002, WI-009. QI-028. 207