A/HRC/42/CRP.5 representation. Often men after suffering beatings in detention were released without charge, sometimes upon payment of a bribe.802 362. Some ethnic Rakhine men who were detained have never returned to their village. Relatives and friends reported to the Mission that they have had no news from these individuals and presume that they remain in detention and have been charged. These relatives have not been able to find out where they are detained or what charges have been filed against them.803 363. The Mission also received reports of Tatmadaw soldiers rounding up Rohingya men and subjecting them to similar physical and verbal abuse while asking them about AA activities or accusing them of assisting the AA. 804 After beatings and interrogations, some of the Rohingya villagers were released805 while others were used for forced labour.806 364. The Mission verified two incidents that involved a significant number of deaths in custody, as well as torture and other ill-treatment of ethnic Rakhine men. (a) Let Ka, Mrauk-U Township, April 2019 365. On 9 April 2019, during an armed clash between the Tatmadaw and the AA it was reported that the AA attacked No. 31 Police Regiment in Mrauk-U.807 The following morning, there was additional fighting between the Tatmadaw and the AA near the Rakhine village of Let Ka in Mrauk-U Township.808 After the gunfire subsided at around 11 am, approximately 150 Tatmadaw soldiers, some of whom were wearing the badges from the 22nd and 55th LIDs, entered Let Ka village.809 The soldiers were armed and entered shooting.810 Villagers tried to seek shelter, some hiding in bunkers inside their homes.811 366. The soldiers ordered all the villagers—adults, the elderly and children—to gather in the yard of a large compound inside the village. The soldiers kept the villagers for several hours under the hot sun and subjected them to verbal harassment and intimidation. 812 367. Some armed soldiers guarded the villagers, while others searched the villagers’ houses, taking some of their belongings.813 During the search, soldiers found a list of names of men who had been designated by village elders to carry out sentry duty of the village due to the proximity of fighting between the Tatmadaw and the AA in the area. 814 The soldiers claimed that it was a list of AA members and called for all those named on the list and any male visitors in the village to come forward. The group totaled 27 and included a number of men from other villages and at least one minor.815 368. The Tatmadaw soldiers led the group away from the others, forced them to lie on the ground, tied their hands behind their backs and beat them. They also threatened to shoot them.816 They were taken by the soldiers to the highway and transported in military vehicles to a Tatmadaw base in Sittwe where they remained detained for several weeks. During that time they endured severe beatings and other treatment that resulted in visible scars and injuries.817 Two persons told the Mission that the Tatmadaw tied up one detainee, 802 803 804 805 806 807 808 809 810 811 812 813 814 815 816 817 CI-276, CI-277, CI-281, CI-285, CI-286, LI-168, LI-170, LI-175. CI-274, CI-275, LI-137, LI-169, LI-172, LI-180. CI-291, LI-166. CI-276, CI-277, LI-166. CI-281, LI-170, LI-224, See Chapter IV. Sections E: The situation of the Rohingya; Forced and compulsory labour. The Irrawaddy “AA Kills 20 Soldiers in N. Rakhine’s Ancient Capital Mrauk-U” (10 April 2019). LI-206, LI-208. LI 206, LI-208. LI-206; LI-208. LI-206, LI-208. LI-206, LI-208. LI-206, LI-208. LI-206, LI-208. LI-206, LI-208, LI-219. LI-208. LI-206, LI-207, LI-209, LI-219. 105