A/HRC/39/CRP.2
ARSA did not claim responsibility for burning villages, it did claim an attack on a police
station in Ah Htet Pyu Ma village tract.2400
1063. Satellite imagery analysis confirms the burning of Ah Htet Pyu Ma. The imagery
reveals that there are two parts of the village, the northern part, containing structures
distributed in a more organized manner and made of higher quality materials, indicative of
an area inhabited by ethnic Rakhine, and a more southern part, likely Rohingya. Both parts
of the village were burned.2401 This contrasts with the burning that took place in a large
majority of village tracts, where the Rakhine hamlets were left intact. 2402
Comparative images of Ah Htet Pyu Ma on 23 May and 16 September 2017,
showing burning of both Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine settlements
1064. ARSA also reportedly burned the Mro village of Khu Daing (Pa Da Kar Ywar Thit
village tract) on 28 August 2017.2403 Satellite imagery analysis confirms the burning and
destruction of Khu Daing by 16 September 2017. The Mission has credible information that
Rohingya or ARSA were responsible for the burning of this village. 2404 Other sources also
report that ARSA was responsible for violent acts against Mro villagers as part of this attack,
with a number of persons injured and others assumed killed,2405 although the Mission has not
been able to verify these allegations.
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K-154.2.
Satellite image analysis prepared for the mission by UNITAR-UNOSAT.
See this chapter, section D.1.b. Patterns of serious human rights violations by the Myanmar security
forces.
Information Committee, “Breaking News 17: ARSA extremist terrorists continue setting houses on
fire” (Facebook post, 30 August 2017),
https://www.facebook.com/InfomationCommittee/posts/788328661340242; V-067, Global New
Light of Myanmar, “Seven more civilians killed in Rakhine” (31 August 2017).
RI-008, LM-007, LM-017, V-067.
V-067, Global New Light of Myanmar, “Seven more civilians killed in Rakhine” (31 August 2017).
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