REPORT by the ICOE

(Independent Commission of Enquiry)

235 pages of that report are ANNEXES 16 - 28,
I will summarize….
by Rick Heizman, February 18, 2020

Many of you may have seen the SUMMARY of the 430 page REPORT by the ICOE
(Independent Commission of Enquiry). 235 pages of that report are ANNEXES 16-28 which
has WITNESS TESTIMONIES and VERIFIED DETAILS of 50+ attacks by Bengali Muslims,

on August 25, 2017.

This is why Reuters, Fortify Rights, Human Rights Watch, Frontier Myanmar, and all other
ignorant and arrogant Bengali terrorist supporting goons hate it! Because, it is honest,
truthful, in-depth, verified, cross-checked, and researched material. (I know that well,
because I assisted them by giving them a lot of material evidence, which they cross-checked
and verified).

Attacks on Yaytwinpyin village tract

all text is from the ICOE report, except in [brackets], bold is mine

Profile of Yaytwinpyin village tract, northern Maungdaw Township

Yaytwinpyin village tract in northern Maungdaw consists of only one village of Yaytwinpyin.
According to 2017 records, Yaytwinpyin village had a population of 3,740 in 450 houses, and
at the moment there are only 203 people left in 42 houses.
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Combined Statements of 5 Muslim witnesses
Witnesses spoke about three parts of the conflict. The first part deals with the situation prior to
August 25, 2017, the second part covers the period during the August 25 incident and the
status of villagers who had fled, and the third part covers the current period where intimidation
still exists.

The murder of the Yaytwinpyin village tract chairman, prior to the August 2017 incident, was
recounted by all 5 witnesses. One witness recounted of personally witnessing about 30
people dressed in black breaking into the house of the administrator on May 29, 2017,
when the administrator was collecting a list of children under two years old. The
administrator was killed right in front of the witness by people dressed in black, who
included Yaytwinpyin villagers as well as villagers from other villages, who hated the
administrator [as they were told to do by the Mawlawis (Imams) and the ARSA militants] for
collaborating and working with the government as an administrator.

The witnesses spoke of various situations in northern Maungdaw, prior to the August 2017
incident. ARSA members started to become active in about March 2017. Whenever security
personnel came for inspection, the ARSA members received prior information and went away
to other villages, and returned only after the security personnel left. Another witness stated
that ARSA members in groups of four or five starting to hold discussions in
Yaytwinpyin village about a month before the incident. The group was quite strong with
many members, mostly made up of unemployed youths. The group had a certain
organizational structure and members were not specially trained but were prepared to go
into action with swords, sticks and homemade guns. In addition to this, ARSA
members were intimidating villagers who were holding national verification cards, said
one witness.

On the night of August 25, about 50 Muslims from Yaytwinpyin village and more than 300
from Zipinchaung village colluded and attacked Zipinchaung police station. The witness
did not personally see the attack but instead witnessed ARSA members leaving the village on
the way to attack. There were no casualties on the side of the security forces, but three from
ARSA were killed in the attack. After the attack, ARSA
members came to Yaytwinpyin village and told each and
every house of the attack on Zipinchaung as being an
example, and that in the coming few days, bigger attacks
were to follow. As the villagers were told to save
themselves, they fled in fear from the village three days
after the August 25 incident.

Another witness spoke of hearing gun shots on the night

of August 25. The witness also stated that he saw Muslims
holding swords and sticks. At 10AM, on the morning of
August 28, Zipinchaung and Myomichaung villages were
seen to be on fire. Fifteen days after the incident, around
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September 9, troops entered Yaytwinpyin village. The soldiers stayed for about five days and,
thereafter, came to the village on a regular basis, said the witness.
During the incident, locals from other village tracts did not come to Yaytwinpyin, and that
Zipinchaung and Myomichaung villagers fled to Bangladesh.

On August 26, ARSA members told Yaytwinpyin villagers to leave the village and to come
back only after the situation became stable. On August 29, about a hundred Yaytwinpyin
villagers fled to Bangladesh. ARSA group took away phones, money, clothes, buffaloes
and cows from them.

Another witness said his family were told by ARSA member, on either August 25 or 26, to go
to the other side [Bangladesh] and that they could return after about three days. His family left
for Bangladesh but he remained behind because he feared for his life. He was able to speak
Burmese language, he taught in a government school, and hi had close contact with
government departments.

He stated that ARSA didn’t like him and, even to the present moment, ARSA members
were intimidating people like him via phone. The witness stated that he requested the
government to station a security outpost in the village, but this was not done to date yet.
[Remember, that was the testimony from 5 Muslims!]

By Rick Heizman, February 18, 2020

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