A/HRC/39/CRP.2 Everyone was running for their lives. I was helping my younger sisters to flee. I was shot in the leg and the bullet fractured my leg. I fell down, but my father and uncle carried me to the hamlet next to the forest. There they tried to stop the bleeding. 1925 860. The “clearance operation” took several days.1926 It appears that the security forces first launched operations in the more south-westerly hamlets, closest to the police camp, later moving east and north. They burned buildings as they proceeded. A witness described leaving his house when he saw the security forces approaching: I left my house and ran, but as I was running through a paddy field, I was hit by a bullet in my mouth. I fell down and lay there unconscious. When I regained consciousness, I realised that my mother, brother and sister had come to rescue me and had carried me to the forest. I could see that our house was completely burned, as well as many other houses.1927 861. Some people ran towards Shee Dar, the most northern hamlet, and then towards the forested hills. People, including the injured, women and children, hid in the forest for some days. Persons with serious injuries, received treatment in the forest from a villager with some medical knowledge.1928 862. Women and girls were subjected to sexual violence, including rape by members of the Tatmadaw and the police both in their homes and in the forest when trying to escape. 1929 One survivor recalled: The military came to our village. I hid in the toilet outhouse, some distance from our house. I saw that our house was surrounded by 10 soldiers and some police. I was able to see what happened. First they tied up my parents. Then they shot my father and raped my mother; later they killed her too. After this, they burned our house. The toilet was far from the house, so I was able to escape.1930 863. Satellite imagery analysis demonstrates that the Rohingya hamlets of Myin Hlut village tract were burned and destroyed by 16 September 2017. Further satellite imagery analysis shows that the area was bulldozed and cleared of all buildings and vegetation by 13 February 2018.1931 864. A list of casualties developed by Rohingya community volunteers in the refugee camps of southern Bangladesh indicate that up to 70 persons were killed in Min Hlut. While the Mission has not been able to verify this number, it is consistent with testimony received. Ah Lel Than Kyaw 865. Ah Lel Than Kyaw (known in Rohingya as Hassu Rata) is a village tract with approximately six kilometres of coastline. It has seven main hamlets and a large majority Rohingya population. There is a small ethnic Rakhine population in the northeast of the tract. There is also a BGP checkpoint and camp, where Tatmadaw soldiers were based too. It appears that the presence of security forces increased significantly at these locations from October 2016 onwards.1932 866. At around 4am on 25 August 2017, ARSA launched attacks on the two BGP locations. According to the Government, the Deputy Township Immigration Officer was killed. One police official reportedly stated that 17 participants in the ARSA attack were killed during a three-hour encounter.1933 The same police official reportedly also stated that he had been 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 BI-002. EI-017, LI-120. BI-014. BI-014. BI-002, WI-020, V-085, V-127. WI-020. Satellite imagery analysis prepared for the Mission by UNITAR-UNOSAT. CI-129, CI-192, LI-111, LI-112, ZI-006. XI-008, V-083; Information Committee, “Breaking News 2: Extremist terrorists launch series of attacks on police stations and police outposts in Maungtaw Township” (Facebook post, 25 August 201