A/HRC/39/CRP.2
in-law and my two nephews of 15 and eight years old. They even killed the child in
the same way.1788
810. Women and girls were also gang raped, killed and mutilated. 1789 One interviewee saw
two women being raped by two or three members of the Tatmadaw. The screams he heard
led the interviewee to conclude that the two women were then killed. 1790 Another witness
who was hiding nearby described one woman being killed by being knifed in her vagina.1791
811. A female survivor from Maung Nu described how soldiers caught her and other
women while trying to flee the village:
I ran to the hills to escape the shooting. My husband and I were caught by the military.
My husband was badly beaten and could not move. Three members of the military
took me. One man held me down and pushed me to the ground. They tore of my clothes.
Two men raped me. My husband could still see me. They took many other women –
maybe around 10-20 women. I saw them being raped. They took women at different
times. I knew some of the women – they were from my village.1792
812. The incident lasted until sunset. After the killings, soldiers loaded a number of bodies,
wrapped in tarpaulin, onto military trucks.1793 One interviewee who had been hiding nearby
saw soldiers leaving the village in the early evening in three military trucks. 1794 Another
witness in hiding saw military trucks leave and later return to the village several times. He
believed that soldiers were transporting bodies to the military base. 1795
813. Later that evening, after the soldiers had left, villagers returned and rescued women
and children. Witnesses described seeing blood and the ground feeling “sticky”.1796 Others
described seeing bodies, including of children, and body parts scattered on the ground. 1797
One interviewee described stepping on peoples’ clothes and headscarves that were covered
with blood, and then finding a dead body, with a slit throat. He returned the following day
and found a pit where the soil was disturbed and where he presumed bodies had been
buried.1798
814. Credible reports suggest that soldiers buried some bodies in shallow pits in a nearby
field.1799 The Mission analysed video footage and photos that show patches of blood in a
scrubland area said to be near the compound.1800 It has also reviewed footage of tarpaulin
bags buried just below the surface in an area similar to the one previously described. A human
leg, already in an advanced stage of decomposition, is visibly protruding from one of the
bags. The Mission was not able to independently verify the geo-location or date of the video
footage; however, the details shown, such as patches of blood, women’s headscarves and
other elements, are consistent with eyewitness accounts of the events in Maung Nu.
815. Information indicates that up to 100 people, mostly men and boys, were executed in
Maung Nu.1801 The Mission has received a non-exhaustive list of the dead compiled by
Rohingya community volunteers in the refugee camps of southern Bangladesh. It details the
names, ages and professions of 82 people killed (48 people from Maung Nu and 34 from
Hpaung Taw Pyin). Aside from one woman, they are all men and boys, with 28 under 18
years old, the youngest six years old. While the Mission cannot confirm the accuracy of the
1788
1789
1790
1791
1792
1793
1794
1795
1796
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801
LI-079.
EI-019, EI-027, LI-081, LI-094.
LI-094.
LI-081.
EI-027.
CI-026, CI-194, CI-195, CI-196, LI-094, QI-042, WI-017, YI-033.
LI-055.
CI-196.
LI-084, LI-094, YI-033.
CI-026, CI-044, CI-194, LI-055, LI-079, LI-094.
LI-055, V-067.
VI-067.
K-157.1.
EI-019, LI-055, V-076, V-079.
191