A/HRC/39/CRP.2 and children. Another interviewee helped four men on the other side of the river, each with gunshot wounds.1823 825. One mother described how she had to choose which of her children to save. The security forces had entered her house and grabbed her young daughter. Her son tried to save his sister and was attacked by the security forces. The mother watched from the other end of the house and made the split second decision that that these two children would not live, but that she could perhaps still save her two younger children. Her husband returned the next morning to the village and dug through pits of bodies until he found the corpse of their son. They never found the body of their daughter. The mother told the Mission with haunted eyes: “How can I continue with my life having made this choice?”1824 826. Women and girls were subjected to sexual and gender-based violence, including rape, gang rape and abductions.1825 They were gang raped by members of the Tatmadaw in bushy and forested areas as they fled.1826 They were also abducted from their homes, sometimes prior to the main “clearance operation” commencing.1827 Based on credible reports received, and in light of similar patterns established in other locations, it is likely that abducted women and girls were raped or gang raped. A 50-year old mother said: The soldiers came to my house and took my daughter away. I do not know what happened to her. I saw soldiers taking quite a lot of beautiful girls when we were fleeing.1828 827. Some of those who participated in the operation were recognised as locals from the nearby NaTaLa1829 village, Kyauk Sar Taing. A short time before the operation was conducted, a new group of men had arrived in Kyak Sar Taing 1830 and it appears they may also have been brought to the village by the Tatmadaw. 828. Satellite imagery analysis confirms that all structures in Gu Dar Pyin were burned by 16 September.1831 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 194 YI-017. EI-079. EI-078, EI-079, EI-080, K-151. EI-078, EI-079, EI-080. EI-078, EI-079, EI-080, K-151. EI-079. The Myanmar authorities have engaged in the policy of building “model villages” since the 1990s taking the name of “NaTaLa” from the Ministry for Development of Border Areas and National Races that designates and establishes them. Farmland was appropriated, and individuals and families were resettled from urban areas to border regions. In northern Rakhine State, “model villages” were largely intended to allow for the resettlement of ethnic Rakhine from other parts of Myanmar, or to encourage persons of ethnic Rakhine origin (and possibly other ethnicities) to move from Bangladesh. The apparent purpose appears to have been, at least in part, to transform the demographic profile of northern Rakhine State through increasing the ethnic Rakhine or Buddhist population; K-063.20, K160.1, K-160.2. LI-062, LI-063, LI-065. Satellite imagery analysis prepared for the Mission by UNITAR-UNOSAT.