A/HRC/39/CRP.2 Image of Ywar Thit Kay from 25 September 2017. Burnings first detected on 16 September 2017 968. The “clearance operations” were also initiated in the days after the ARSA attacks in numerous other locations across northern Rakhine State that were not in the vicinity of an ARSA attack. One example is the village of Sin Oe Pyin, in Maung Gyi Haunt village tract, Buthidaung Township. On or around 26 August 2017, the village was set on fire by Tatmadaw soldiers. Neither the Government nor any other source reported any ARSA attack in the vicinity. Several interviewees said that soldiers entered the village, started shooting at villagers and used “launchers” to burn houses:2186 “The soldiers were everywhere; the whole village seemed full of soldiers. They were shooting towards the people randomly and shooting launchers to burn the houses.” 2187 These accounts are consist with satellite imagery analysed by the Mission showing that Sin Oe Pyin was burned by 16 September 2017. 2186 2187 CI-132, LI-047, LI-114, XI-004. LI-114. 227