A/HRC/39/CRP.2 805. A large group of Tatmadaw soldiers entered Maung Nu on 27 August 2017, between 10 and 11am.1771 They arrived in military trucks and spread out in small groups on foot making their way towards the compound, while firing in the air. 1772 806. Once in the compound, the soldiers ordered people to come out of the houses,1773 with the threat that otherwise the houses would be set on fire.1774 Soldiers then broke down a door of the main house, and a number of them entered and continued to fire sporadically once inside.1775 A child was hit in the head by a bullet and died shortly afterwards.1776 The soldiers broke down a door and started firing inside. I saw my brother’s 10-year old son shot in the head. His head was split open and his brain splattered on the wall.1777 807. As people started to come out from the houses, the soldiers separated women and children from men. Soldiers ordered the women at gunpoint to remove their headscarves, with some soldiers pulling them off. They also searched the women repeatedly for valuable items, ripping open their clothes.1778 One interviewee had an earring ripped from her ear by a soldier, leaving her wounded.1779 Soldiers then separated the women and children into different groups and locked them inside smaller houses within the compound. 1780 808. One of the men who owned the compound was among the first to be killed. While two soldiers held him, a third stabbed him with a knife. Two of his sons were shot dead while trying to intervene.1781 The killings then became more organized. In the courtyard, men and boys were rounded up, most having their hands bound with rope, and made to kneel face down, pointing eastwards. Soldiers also used some of the women’s headscarves to blindfold the men and boys, and to tie their hands behind their back. 1782 They then opened fire on the men and boys. Soldiers also slit their throats with knives.1783 A small group of men and boys were taken from the courtyard to an area of scrubland a few minutes walking distance away, where they were killed.1784One interviewee who managed to hide within the compound recounted: The soldiers took the men out of the house and tied up their hands behind their back with a rope. When the rope had finished they used women’s headscarves to tie them up. Soldiers forced them to lie with their chest and face down on the ground. Some of them were shot first and then their throats were slit with a knife. Others just had their throats slit.1785 809. Soldiers killed a number of children in the courtyard.1786 One interviewee saw a young child stabbed by soldiers while crying.1787 Another woman saw soldiers kill her two nephews through a crack in a door of one of the compound houses: The soldiers killed the male members of my family. They shot at them first and then slit their throats. The courtyard was full of blood. They killed my husband, my father- 1771 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 190 CI-026, CI-110, CI-196, LI-079, LI-084, QI-042, WI-017. CI-026, CI-110, CI-195, CI-196, LI-055, YI-033. CI-026, CI-109, CI-110, EI-019, LI-081, QI-042, WI-017, YI-032. CI-195, LI-079, QI-042, WI-017, YI-032, V-076. CI-195, EI-019, YI-032, YI-033. QI-042, YI-032, YI-033, V-076. K-156. QI-042. LI-079, LI-084, QI-042, WI-017, YI-032, YI-033. LI-084. LI-079, QI-042, YI-032, YI-033. CI-026, CI-109, CI-110, CI-196, WI-017. CI-026, CI-109, EI-019, QI-042, WI-017, YI-032, YI-033. CI-026, CI-109, CI-110, CI-194, CI-196, EI-018, LI-079, LI-094, QI-042, WI-017. CI-194, CI-196, V-067. C1-196. LM-018, V-077. CI-109.