A/HRC/39/CRP.2 their villages were unable to find the bodies of relatives who they had witnessed being killed.2244 1000. In a number of locations, the security forces burned the bodies of Rohingya who had been killed.2245 One person from Koe Tan Kauk village, Rathedaung Township, saw Tatmadaw soldiers carrying bodies and putting them in a boat, which was then burned. 2246 Another witness saw a large number of burned bodies in Kha Maung Seik, Maungdaw Township, which he said had been collected in one location. 2247 Another villager from Yae Khat Chaung Gwa Son village tract, Maungdaw Township, observed soldiers collecting dead bodies and putting them inside houses before setting the houses on fire. 2248 Similarly, in Chut Pyin, bodies were burned in a house. 2249 One witness watched for two hours as soldiers collected dead bodies and threw them into a burning house. 2250 Following the mass killing in Min Gyi, bodies were burned in three large pits dug for this purpose, while the bodies of multiple women were burned in the houses where they were subjected to mass gang rapes. 2251 1001. In other locations, the Tatmadaw buried bodies in mass graves. Gravesites have been documented in a number of the locations where mass killings took place, including Maung Nu, Gu Dar Pyin, and Inn Din. 2252 The Mission has received further reports of soldiers and security forces digging graves and burying multiple bodies in other locations.2253 One man saw in a house the bodies of women and girls who had been shot, but was forced to flee the shooting. When he returned some hours later, he found that the bodies had been moved into a pit.2254 Another man returned to his village in Ah Lel Than Kyaw to find a number of bodies of men who had been shot thrown into a well.2255 The Mission also heard repeated reports of bodies thrown into rivers, ponds and paddy fields. 2256 1002. The information points to a concerted effort by the Tatmadaw to dispose of Rohingya corpses following the “clearance operations” in villages. The manner in which the bodies were disposed of, including through the preparation of large pits, both to burn bodies and to bury them, and the use of vehicles to transport corpses and the use of other equipment, suggests both a level of pre-planning and an intention to destroy criminal evidence. This has been consolidated by subsequent terrain clearance through bulldozing, removing evidence of burned bodies and graves. It is likely that hundreds, and possibly thousands, of bodies have been burned, buried or subsequently destroyed. 1003. The Tatmadaw were also witnessed collecting dead bodies in military vehicles, and removing them.2257 In particular, in central Buthidaung Township, bodies were wrapped in plastic sheets by soldiers and then removed in military vehicles from the village tract of Chin Tha Mar, the location of the Maung Nu mass killing. 2258 Bodies were then removed in military vehicles and trucks. One villager from Chin Tha Mar, reported seeing a number of large trucks being driven away, each containing bodies.2259 Another witness saw military trucks leave and later return to the village several times. He believed that soldiers were transporting bodies to the military base.2260 2244 2245 2246 2247 2248 2249 2250 2251 2252 2253 2254 2255 2256 2257 2258 2259 2260 240 CI-079, LI-055, LI-083 LI-099, WI-002, WI-003. CI-030, LI-020, LI-048, LI-059, LI-072, LI-088, QI-002, QI-003, QI-004, QI-035, RI-004, V-075. XI-001. QI-029. LI-020. CI-177, CI-186, CI-191. CI-186 See this chapter, section D.1.a: Most serious incidents. See this chapter, section D.1.a: Most serious incidents. EI-047, CI-111, CI-187, CI-195, WI-011. CI-111. CI-129, LI-112. CI-004, CI-014, CI-015, CI-021, CI-146, CI-183, LI-046, LI-055, LI-063, LI-080, LI-094. CI-016, CI-035, EI-017, LI-055. CI-027, CI-109, CI-195, LI-020, LI-046, LI-055, LI-080, QI-042, WI-017, V-067, V-75, V-077. LI-020. CI-196.