A/HRC/39/CRP.2 906. Those who were able to return to their villages reported seeing burned corpses in houses. A man who returned to Kyauk Pan Du in southern Maungdaw saw the burned corpses of 10 elderly people and one younger person inside their houses. 2021 A man from a village in Buthidaung Township was able to return to his hamlet after dark and found around 12 bodies of elderly people who had been burned in their homes.2022 Another victim from Ta Man Thar in northern Maungdaw Township returned to find the charred bodies of a disabled man and two elderly people in their houses.2023 A female victim from a village in Maungdaw that was subjected to a “clearance operation” in early September 2017 described her experience: My house was in the west of the hamlet and the military entered from the east. They started burning houses and I could see the flames. My disabled brother had a house in the east. His wife and children fled, but she told me that he was not able to. He burned inside his house, as he was unable to get out. After two days of hiding and watching the village burn, we left for Bangladesh.2024 907. One interviewee described fleeing when soldiers entered his village, Zone Kar Yar in Tha Pyay Taw village tract, southern Maungdaw, and set fire to houses from one end of the village. His 80-year old mother was unable to run. Shortly afterwards, he could see his house burning from where he was hiding. The following day, when he returned to his village, he found the charred body of his mother. 2025 Another witness reported seeing the bodies of his grandmother and his two infant nephews, who had been burned to death in his grandmother’s house in Ah Lel Than Kyaw, southern Maungdaw Township. 2026 908. The Mission further verified a pattern of Tatmadaw soldiers intentionally forcing people into houses that were either burning or about to be set alight, and even locking them inside.2027 One victim from Ngan Chuang in northern Maungdaw recounted: The military came into my village and burned the houses with launchers. I was inside my house with my children when they locked the door from the outside. The house was burning, but I was able to break down a bamboo wall and then rescued my children one by one. However, my 11-year old daughter was severely burned.2028 909. During the operations in Min Gyi, soldiers took women and children to houses where they were raped and gang raped, after which the doors were locked and the houses set on fire. Most victims, including young children who had accompanied their mothers, were unable to escape and burned to death. Similarly, in Chut Pyin, a number of people were forced inside houses, which were then intentionally set alight by soldiers.2029 910. Multiple accounts were received of people, including babies and children, being pushed or thrown into burning houses by soldiers. 2030 One interviewee reported seeing two young children, six or seven years old, running out of a burning house, only to be pushed back in by soldiers during the operation in Myin Hlut, Maungdaw Township. 2031 An interviewee from Kyauk Pan Du, Maungdaw, also described a group of approximately 10 women, children and elderly persons trying to escape a burning house, but being pushed back inside by soldiers. He saw one soldier stabbing a child, and then pushing the child inside the burning house. The entire group were burned alive in the house. 2032 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 210 WI-016. QI-007. QI-070. QI-025. QI-012. CI-025. BI-006, CI-023, EI-007, EI-058, EI-066, LI-005, LI-012, LI-059, LI-071, LI-075, LI-078, QI-049, QI059, QI-111, WI-003, WI-004, WI-005, WI-016, WI-029, XI-001, YI-008. LI-071. See this chapter, section D.1.a: Most serious incidents. EI-007, EI-058, LI-005, LI-059, QI-111, WI-005. QI-011. EI-007, LI-005.