A/HRC/39/CRP.2 I was beaten with belts and knives. Both my parents were killed. They were tied up and burned. Their house was set on fire by five soldiers. They took me outside the house to rape me. I was taken by one man with three stars on his badge to the back of the house. He beat me with the butt of his gun and a belt. They wanted money and were not happy because my family was Christian. The soldier ripped my shirt and cut my trousers with a knife. Under the banana tree, he raped me on the ground. He inserted his penis in my vagina and my anus. He inserted a banana leaf in my mouth to make me stop screaming. I heard, “If you don’t keep quiet, I will shoot you with my gun”.347 203. In another case, on 16 March 2016 in Kutkai Township, Shan State, a Tatmadaw soldier grabbed a victim when visiting her home to buy a chicken. She told him she was three months pregnant and asked him not to rape her. She escaped but he threatened to return the following day. She reported the incident to the village administrator but she later learned that Tatmadaw soldiers had beaten him to prevent an official report being filed. 348 204. The Mission verified a well-publicised case involving two volunteer Kachin teachers, Maran Lu Ra, and Tangbau Hkawn Nan Tsin, who were attacked at home in Kawng Kha Shabuk village in Kutkai Township, Shan State on 19 January 2015, the night that over 40 Tatmadaw soldiers arrived in the village. A couple staying nearby heard shouts at 1am in the morning, but there was no response when they knocked on the teachers’ door so they left. Other villagers saw several Tatmadaw officers picked up by a vehicle and leave the village approximately four hours later. The two teachers’ bodies were discovered later that morning, naked from the waist down, lying on the bed in their home in pools of blood, with blood flowing from their vaginas. A military badge was found on the bed, but no forensic evidence of the crime scene was collected by authorities. Later that day, the Tatmadaw Major staying in the village threatened to “use machine guns on the school” and “burn down the village” if the Tatmadaw was accused of the crimes. 349 205. According to a source interviewed by the Mission, the doctor who examined the two bodies at Muse hospital provided two contradictory medical reports. The first report concluded that approximately four perpetrators were involved in the rape and murder of the two teachers. The second report concluded that there were only two perpetrators, only one of the women was raped, and the military were not involved.350 Forensic analysis conducted by the Mission however suggests that the first victim was attacked with a knife initially and raped, then or simultaneously stabbed, after which she was bludgeoned as a final act. The second victim was initially assaulted with a knife, resisted and was repeatedly stabbed and cut leading to death from haemorrhage; there is no disturbance of clothing from the material analysed to indicate a completed rape. 206. The police investigation stalled before any court proceedings were initiated. The Tatmadaw has prevented any questioning of its officers and has publicly declared it will take legal action if its officers are accused by representatives of the victims. 351 Sexual violence against men in interrogation or detention contexts 207. In addition to other forms of torture during interrogation and/or detention, the Mission found credible accounts supporting a pattern of sexual violence perpetrated as torture or illtreatment against men from Kachin and Shan States. All accounts of sexualised torture reported in the context of detention were perpetrated by the Myanmar Intelligence Office 347 348 349 350 351 PI-117. PI-057. PI-037, K-133a; Also, Shan Human Rights Foundation, Burma Army kill villager in front of his parents, then force over 1,200 villagers to demonstrate against “insurgents” for killing civilians in Murng Yawng (1 January 2015); Legal Aid Network and Kachin Women’s Association in Thailand, Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: Seeking Truth about Sexual Violence and War Crime Case in Burma (2016) pp.3-14; Aye Nay, Kachin church ‘powerless’ to investigate teachers’ murders (7 July 2015); US State Department, Burma 2015 Human Rights Report (2015), p. 2. PI-037; A/HRC/28/72, para.59. Ibid. 53