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Soldiers used rifle butts to beat my brother on the head and I saw his brains come out.
I saw people being killed with long knives. The soldiers were also spraying bullets
and many people were injured and killed. Our village was full of dead bodies. I saw
dozens of people killed. First, they shot the people and then if they were still alive and
the body was moving they used a machete to slaughter across the throat.1717
786. She managed to escape with her 10-year old granddaughter who was shot in the leg.
As the child recalled in shock: “They were shooting at us so we were just crawling through
the bodies”.1718 The child said that she saw her father, mother, sister and brother killed.1719
The girl and her grandmother told the Mission that they lost seven members of their family
that day.1720
787. The chaos of the situation was described vividly by one woman who was shot in her
arm while trying to escape:
They began to set fire to the houses so I ran. That is when I was shot. It wasn’t easy
to get away, as I had to hide behind whatever I could find to avoid bullets. As I was
running, I saw others running to save their lives too. People were being shot,
slaughtered and beaten, forcing us to move from one place to another. Everyone was
desperate as we didn’t know where to flee.1721
788. The operations in Chut Pyin lasted until about 7pm.1722 Rohingya from nearby villages
confirmed seeing smoke rising from Chut Pyin from 2pm until the evening, when it started
to rain, and hearing the sound of bullets until around 7pm. 1723 Satellite imagery analysis from
16 September 2017 shows the extent of the destruction in Chut Pyin. The entire Rohingya
village of Chut Pyin was destroyed, while the nearby non-Rohingya village of Thet remains
intact.
Image of Chut Pyin from 16 September 2017 showing burned structures
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LI-008.
LI-009.
LI-009.
LI-008, LI-009.
WI-003, V-075.
CI-177, RI-001, WI-005, V-075.
LI-118, LI-129, QI-031, QI-115.