Sexual and gender-based violence in Myanmar and the gendered impact of its ethnic conflicts in English girls were raped and gang raped during the attacks. In Maung Nu, as soldiers arrived at the village,176 they separated the women and children into different groups and locked them inside smaller houses within the compound.177 Women and girls were subsequently gang raped, killed and mutilated.178 In one case, documented by the Mission, a knife was used to mutilate the vagina of a woman, who died as a result of the injuries. 179 78. Around 28 August 2017, the Tatmadaw and security forces attacked Gu Dar Pyin, the main Rohingya settlement known as Gudam Para, in Southern Buthidaung Township, killing people and subjecting women and girls to sexual and gender-based violence, including rape, gang rape and abductions.180 79. Women and girls were also abducted and gang raped at the military compound next to Gu Dar Pyin village on the day of the “clearance operations” in that village.181 Women and girls of reproductive age were targeted, principally between the ages of 13 and 25 years old. 80. In Min Gyi (Tu Lar Tu Li), known also as Tula Toli in Rohingya, in Maungdaw Township, Tatmadaw soldiers brutally raped women in groups of up to seven victims at a time, on 30 August 2017.182 The Tatmadaw killed the women’s children and set houses on fire, burning many of the victims to death.183 81. A 25-year-old Rohingya woman was gang raped in Chin Tha Mar, Buthidaung Township, in early September 2017. She recounted: “The military came around 6 pm and started firing at people. People died from the shooting. They came by motorcycle. After the shooting I ran to the hills with other villagers and my husband. When the military caught us they beat my husband and three men took me, they tore my clothes as one held and pushed me to the ground. They used their penis to rape me. They took many other women, around ten or twenty, who were also raped.”184 82. Rape and sexual violence was also reported in Chein Khar Li (Ku Lar) and Koe Tan Kauk villages in Rathedaung Township, on 28 August 2017. In Koe Tan Kauk, a young girl was found bleeding and naked, raped by the military. She subsequently died. 185 In Chein Khar Li (Ku Lar), Tatmadaw soldiers raped and slit the throat of a woman and killed her three children, all under the age of five.186 83. Other villages were also affected. A 30-year-old Rohingya woman from Kha Maung Seik village tract in Maungdaw Township was gang raped in late August by the Tatmadaw. She recounted: “Around 20 military came at around sunset and surrounded my house. Many female neighbours had managed to flee but my children were hungry so I had returned to my house to cook. After sunset the military entered the house while the children were sleeping. They slapped me twice, put a cloth over my mouth so I couldn’t speak and I was tied down. I was blindfolded so I could not see properly. Two men held my hands and someone else held my legs apart. I was conscious so knew that two people were sitting on my legs.”187 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 CI-026, CI-110, CI-196, LI-079, LI-084, QI-042, WI-017. LI-079, QI-042, YI-032, YI-033. EI-019, EI-027, LI-081, LI-094. LI-081. EI-078, EI-079, EI-080, K-151. EI-078, EI-079, EI-080, K-151. CI-042, CI-046, EI-080, EI-081, QI-60, QI-071, WI-038, K-150, K-151. CI-042, CI-046, EI-080, EI-81, QI-060, QI-071, WI-038, K-150, K-151. EI-027. XI-001. CI-181, CI-182, LI-052. EI-089. 21