A/HRC/39/CRP.2 names of eight local ARSA members were given to the BGP, leading to BGP night raids and arrests.2379 1055. A number of additional smaller militant Rohingya groups appear to have been active in northern Rakhine State and may also have been involved in controlling or killing informants.2380 The Mission reviewed a number of videos showing men wearing black masks giving death threats to villagers, whom they referred to by name and who they suspected had passed information to the authorities. ARSA stated that the men in black masks were not ARSA members. The Mission was not able to verify the origin of these videos or their content.2381 Killings of members of other ethnic groups 1056. Open sources reported the first case of alleged killings of ethnic Rakhine villagers by ARSA on 24 June 2017. ARSA members reportedly confronted four individuals who came across an ARSA IED cache, while foraging in Kyun Pauk Pyu Su village tract, northern Maungdaw Township. Two were shot dead and two, one of whom was injured, fled and alerted the authorities. When the authorities returned to the location of the incident, the materials were not found.2382 The Mission was not able to corroborate this incident, 2383 although credible sources indicate that this may indeed have been attributable to ARSA. 2384 1057. On 3 August 2017, six to seven men and women of the Mro ethnic group were allegedly killed in the hills of Maungdaw Township near to Kine Gyi, the NaTaLa village where they lived. The Myanmar Government has stated that ARSA is responsible for these killings, allegations that were shared widely and publicly within Myanmar. 2385 The Mission has not been able to verify this incident or its perpetrator. Credible information indicates, however, that the killings may have been related to the illegal narcotics trade. 2386 ARSA has denied involvement in this incident.2387 1058. The Government further alleged that ARSA was responsible for an attack on twenty Daignet villagers, reportedly from Ran Khar Zay Divillage, in Kar Lar Day Hpet village tract, travelling towards Aung Zan village in Aung Zan/Bauk Shu Hpweit village tract, northern Maungdaw Township. While it was first reported that 19 of the group were missing following an attack by ARSA, it was later reported that five of the group had been killed. 2388 The Mission has been unable to verify this incident. 1059. ARSA has also been accused of the alleged killings and disappearances of up to 100 Hindu men and women from Kha Maung Seik village tract, in northern Maungdaw Township. It is alleged that, on 25 August 2017, ARSA killed 45 Hindus in the hamlet of Au Nauk Ka Maung Seik2389 and a similar number from a second hamlet in the same village tract, Ye Bauk Kyar village (Reak Kya Para).2390 Referring to this incident, Amnesty International has concluded that ARSA is responsible “… for at least one, and potentially a second, 2379 2380 2381 2382 2383 2384 2385 2386 2387 2388 2389 2390 V-094. BM-025. LM-017. V-068. See this chapter, section D.2.b: The build-up to 25 August 2017. V-067, K-156.2. Information Committee, “Press Release on the Situation in Maungdaw” (Facebook post, 11 August 2017),para 4, https://www.facebook.com/InfomationCommittee/photos/pcb.778752418964533/778752095631232/? type=3&theater BM-025, LM-007, V-094. ARSA, Statement, ARSA/PR/04/2017, of 6 August 2017; ARSA Statement, ARSA/PR/05/2017, at 13 August 2017. V-113; Ministry of Information, “Interview with the family members of the villagers slain by ARSA extremist terrorists” (4 September 2017), http://www.moi.gov.mm/moi:eng/?q=news/4/09/2017/id11434; Multiple Facebook posts, now defunct, of the Commander-in-Chief, on file with the Mission. V-067; Global New Light of Myanmar, “Interview with bereaved families of Hindus killed by ARSA terrorists” (27 September 2017); http://www.statecounsellor.gov.mm/en/node/1041 V-067. 251