A/HRC/39/CRP.2 Image of Sin Oe Pyin from 11 October 2017. Burnings first detected on 16 September 2017 969. The security forces and ethnic Rakhine often returned to “clear” and systematically burn villages.2188 Satellite imagery confirms that, despite the State Counsellor’s statement of 19 September 2017 that the military’s “clearance operations” ended on 5 September, 2189 the destruction of villages continued for weeks afterwards. One example is Goke Pi village in Buthidaung Township, which was intact as of 25 September and subsequently burned by 11 October.2190 2188 2189 2190 228 CI-043, QI-008, QI-010, QI-011, QI-017, QI-025, QI-061, QI-062, QI-107. “Speech delivered by Her Excellency Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar on Government’s efforts with regard to National Reconciliation and Peace” (Facebook post, 19 September 2017), https://www.facebook.com/state.counsellor/posts/speechdelivered-by-her-excellency-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-state-counsellor-of-the-/1121130291354519. For example, although not the site of any ARSA attacks, Aw Lan Pyin village in Nga Kyin Tauk village tract (Buthidaung); Mee Chaung Khaung Swea (Buthidaung); Tin May (Buthidaung); Goke Pi (Buthidaung) were all burned after 5 September 2017.