A/HRC/39/CRP.2 only involving small portions of rice, with allegations of instances when the rice was thrown on the ground for them to eat by licking the floor.1448 Fluids given to detainees appear to have deliberately included urine at times.1449 673. Much of the mistreatment was perpetrated by ethnic Rakhine detainees, facilitated by the prison authorities.1450 There are allegations that some Rakhine may have been brought into the prison for this specific purpose.1451 One former detainee referred to 10 ethnic Rakhine detainees who were “in charge of discipline”, 1452 although the overall number involved may have been larger.1453 The ethnic Rakhine detainees perpetrated the abuse throughout all hours of the day, particularly when they were sharing the same cells as Rohingya detainees. Mostly it involved severe, repeated and systematic beatings with wooden sticks, including while being forced to adopt a “praying position”, kneeling on the ground. Similar beatings were also carried out by prison guards. Guards used catapults to fire pellets at detainees from outside the cells and some reportedly made detainees crawl on the floor and beat them in this position.1454 674. The beatings were accompanied by insults and references to retribution for the alleged violence.1455 For example, one interviewee stated that the ethnic Rakhine detainee beating him said, “you burned our homes, you killed our people. Is this your country?” 1456 It appears that men with beards, often religious persons, were particularly targeted and suffered mistreatment focused on the forced removal of their beards. 1457 One Rohingya interviewee stated that he was forced to “pull out the beards” of 10 to 20 detainees, with his hand: “It was very painful for all of them. They were bleeding, and I was helpless. I did not have any other option. I felt bad.”1458 675. For the period following the June 2012 violence, there are also credible and consistent reports of men and boys being subjected to sexual violence, including rape, sexualised torture and humiliation, either by authorities or in their presence. 1459 Rohingya boys were detained in the same cells as adult men. Detainees stated that guards anally raped Rohingya boys. At night, groups of boys and young men were subjected to penile rape, both orally and anally, by ethnic Rakhine detainees, often in the same cell as other detainees. One former detainee described how boys were taken into the latrine after dark: Almost every night they took these boys to the latrine in the cell. They forced them to perform oral sex and raped them. If they refused, they put their face into the latrine. We used to hear the screaming of the victims, but we were helpless and could do nothing.1460 1448 1449 1450 1451 1452 1453 1454 1455 1456 1457 1458 1459 1460 158 CI-130, CI-136, CI-176, DI-037, QI-105, QI-107, KI-076.4. CI-136, CI-176, QI-108. DI-037; KI-076.2, KI-076.3, KI-076.5. In 2013, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar said: “In Rakhine State, following violence in June 2012, Muslim men and boys were allegedly arbitrarily detained in Buthidaung prison. They were subjected to three months of systematic torture and ill-treatment by prison guards and up to 20 prison inmates, who appear to have been brought into the prison for the specific purpose of administering beatings to Muslim prisoners”, A/68/397, para. 10; KI-076.4. DI-037. A/68/397, para. 10. QI-105, QI-107, QI-108; KI-076.4, KI-076.5. Similar beatings continued more recently. One interviewee informed the Mission that, when he visited his relatives in the prison in early 2017, they were “hardly recognisable”, with marks on their bodies and their faces swollen and black. CI-130, CI-136, QI-105, QI-106, QI-108. QI-105. CI-082, CI-176. This happened to Rohingya men detained during the post-25 August 2017 “clearance operation”, including an account of more than 30 religious leaders whose beards were burned off with gas lighters. CI-136. CI-136, DI-037, QI-107, QI-108. CI-136.