A/HRC/39/CRP.2 the population of Inn Din was approximately 7,000, 90 per cent of whom were Rohingya. 1949 Although there were no ARSA attacks in Inn Din on 25 August 2017, there were attacks on BGP posts in village tracts directly to the north and to the south, in Thin Baw Kwe and Tha Win Chaung. 872. Tensions were heightened in the immediate aftermath of 25 August, with villagers reporting the presence of Tatmadaw soldiers and ethnic Rakhine and a number of shootings which caused injuries to Rohingya villagers. 1950 An ethnic Rakhine man, who had taken his cattle to a forested area, also went missing, and this appears to have further increased tensions.1951 Other credible reports suggest that many of the ethnic Rakhine residents of Inn Din took shelter in the local monastery, where there were also Tatmadaw soldiers and BGP officers present.1952 873. A “clearance operation” was launched across Inn Din in a similar manner to neighbouring village tracts. It was led by the Tatmadaw, with the active engagement of ethnic Rakhine. Over the course of up to a week, the Rohingya settlements of Inn Din were targeted, with the rapid arrival of soldiers and ethnic Rakhine, often in the early morning. Their arrival was accompanied by gunfire and the burning of houses and other Rohingya property, including through the extensive use of “launchers”. Men, women and children were killed and wounded. They were shot. They were stabbed or slashed with large knives and swords, including by persons in civilian clothes, believed to be ethnic Rakhine. 1953 874. Many interviewees saw Rohingya villagers shot or stabbed. One elderly woman, interviewed in a Bangladeshi hospital in mid-September 2017, had seen soldiers setting houses on fire and shooting people, including her elderly neighbour. 1954 A young mother gave a sense of the surprise nature of the operations. She was at home in the early hours of the morning when she heard gunfire. She saw her neighbour’s house ignite in flames. Bullets then entered her house and her three-year old son was killed. She ran to the forest with her other children and could see houses across the village burning. She also saw the bodies of her uncle and her brother-in-law, with slit throats.1955 In another incident, three members of the same family were executed by Tatmadaw soldiers and ethnic Rakhine. A witness, who hid with one of his sons in a latrine, later found the bodies of his other son, his father-in-law and uncle, who had been stabbed and had their throats slit.1956 875. At one point there appears to have been an attempt by a large group of Rohingya men to offer some resistance in one of the hamlets, known to the Rohingya residents as Bor Para. Men gathered with the aim of preventing the soldiers and ethnic Rakhine from entering the hamlet. The soldiers opened fire on the group, which then dispersed, with at least one man killed.1957 876. Many villagers who were able to escape took shelter in the forested hills to the eastern side of the village tract. Some reported spending up to a week in the hills in difficult conditions under makeshift shelters. 1958 Tatmadaw soldiers also shot into forests where people were sheltering, causing further injuries and possibly deaths. 1959 877. Other villagers congregated on the beach. Reports suggest that some felt forced to leave the forested hills due to the difficult conditions and lack of food and water, moving to the beach with the aim of continuing on to Bangladesh.1960 Reuters journalists investigated 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 V-084. CI-146, LI-006, LI-130, QI-116. LI-130, V-067; Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, S. Lewis, A. Slodkowski, “Massacre in Myanmar” (Reuters, 8 February 2018). V-067. CI-029, CI-146, EI-006, EI-008, EI-057, LI-006, LI-027, LI-130, QI-006, QI-051, QI-116. EI-006. LI-027. QI-051. CI-146, LI-130. CI-146, QI-051. CI-029, LI-027, QI-116. V-067, V-084. 203