A/HRC/39/CRP.2 “zero point”.2738 Myanmar security forces also used slingshots to shoot hard stones across the border towards the Rohingya inside “zero point”, 2739 with one young girl injured and taken for treatment in Bangladesh. 2740 1204. There have been credible reports that a very small number of Rohingya have voluntarily returned to Myanmar to assess the conditions there for the possible return of others. They have been detained, charged and convicted with crimes of illegal border crossing.2741 Information indicates that some men who voluntarily returned were arrested and ill-treated while in detention. They were reportedly convicted in absentia, imprisoned but subsequently pardoned. Upon their release, they were reportedly forced to accept the NVC and then taken to a securitized detention centre, where they were again threatened.2742 Many managed to escape, or were permitted to escape, and to return to Bangladesh. Use of landmines at the border 1205. Landmines were planted by Tatmadaw soldiers along border crossing points in northern Maungdaw Township.2743 Soldiers were seen by witnesses laying mines in border areas in the period after 25 August 2017.2744 Mines were planted, for example, on the Myanmar side of “zero point” between Bangladesh and Myanmar. 2745 1206. A number of explosions in early September 2017 in this region caused deaths and serious permanent injuries to Rohingya, including children. 2746 Some of the explosions occurred when fleeing Rohingya stepped on landmines while crossing the land border into Bangladesh.2747 Other injuries and fatalities were sustained by those trying to return to their villages from Bangladesh or “zero point” to recover possessions or bring remaining relatives with them.2748 1207. Two members of the same Rohingya family were casualties of mines in this border region. This family fled the “clearance operations”, leaving behind one younger man to try to protect the family property. Eventually, he also fled the violence. As he crossed the border at Nga Yant Chaung village tract, in northern Maungdaw, he stepped on and detonated a landmine and was critically injured. Two of his brothers travelled from Bangladesh to assist him or recover his body. When they arrived, they found only remnants of his clothing at the site of the explosion. During this attempt to find him, one of the other brothers also stepped on a landmine and sustained severe injuries, losing a part of both legs and an arm, and being blinded in one eye.2749 1208. The Mission met with another young man who had been severely injured by a landmine, losing his left foot and the vision in his right eye, among other injuries. He had been sheltering in the “zero point” area following the “clearance operations” but had returned to Myanmar in an effort to recover some of his cattle. He stepped on the mine as he was returning to Myanmar.2750 In a further incident, a middle-aged woman stepped on a landmine in the “zero point” area and lost both her legs. 2751 Although fleeing Rohingya constituted the 2738 2739 2740 2741 2742 2743 2744 2745 2746 2747 2748 2749 2750 2751 CI-147, CI-148, LI-132. CI-147, CI-148, LI-131, LI-132. CI-147, CI-148. CI-147, V-190, V-189. Government of the Republic of Myanmar, State Counsellors Office “The First Returnee’s in the camps in Cox’s Bazaar arrived in Reception Centres” (Facebook post, 27 May 2018), https://www.facebook.com/state.counsellor/photos/pcb.1285956094871937/1285955904871956 Ibid. CI-147, CI-148, LI-132, QM-001, XM-005, V-087, V-176. CI-147, CI-148, LI-132, QM-001, XM-005, V-087, V-176. CI-009, CI-147, CI-148, LI-132, WI-001, WI-002. QM-001, WM-003, K-076.20, V-177, V-178, V-179. V-067, V-087. CI-009, CI-147, CI-148, LI-132, WI-001, WI-002. WI-001, WI-002, V-180. CI-009. CI-148, LI-132. 285