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Table 3 Percent of quantitative survey respondents reporting each group’s participation in violence and destruction in northern Rakhine State

From: Seeking justice amidst chaos: methods to identify and document individuals implicated in crimes against the Rohingya in August 2017

 

In the hamlet (%)

While fleeing to Bangladesh (%)

Border Guard Police

90.4

88.7

Military/Tatmadaw

87.2

88.7

  33rd Light Infantry Division

27.8

26.3

  Regiment 552

25.6

27.4

  Regiment 564

16.6

13.4

  Regiment 551

15.3

10.2

Rakhine extremists

66.7

77.5

  969 members+

13.9

13.1

Local government officials*

56.5

56.3

Rakhine state militias

27.1

39.4

Sakma extremists

14.5

31.3

Hindu extremists

12.4

10.2

  1. *Including “civil government,” “Village Tract Administrators,” and “District and Township Administrators”
  2. +969 is a Buddhist monk-led nationalistic movement advocating intolerance toward Muslims