E/CN.4/1993/62 page 72 began firing into the crowd. She clearly saw her father shot in the chest and her husband take at least one shot as well. In the ensuing confusion, she could not find the other members of her family and has never heard about them since. On 4 March 1992, Burmese troops reportedly captured more than 300 Muslims trying to flee across the Naaf River into Bangladesh, took away the young women, and shot dead many of the remaining refugees. In February 1992, a mixed team of Lone Htein and soldiers came late at night to the house of a retired teacher from Maungdaw township who had helped the local authorities collect crops and money from the villagers in order to give them to the army. When the teacher refused to collect goods from the villagers because of the late hour, they cut his throat with a knife in front of his wife and took all the valuables from their house. Abdul Rahman, about 30, a farmer from Buthidaung township, was sitting outside his house when the MI 18 (Military Intelligence) came and shot him dead in the street, on suspicion that he belonged to an insurgent organization, which was not the case. A former government official from Maungdaw township witnessed the killing, in late February 1992, of a farmer whom he had tried to help by trying to mediate between him and the 25 soldiers who demanded that he give them his cows, his sole means of livelihood. The official was reportedly standing next to the farmer, trying to persuade him to hand over his cows when soldiers shot the farmer dead. The soldiers then accused the official of discouraging the farmer from cooperating and slashed him across the head with a bayonet. Abdul Halim, the headman of Imuddin Para village, Rama Musleroy, Buthidaung township, had returned from forced labour with the military to find that his sister, Layla Begum, and his brother had been abducted by soldiers on 1 February 1992. He went to the local army camp to inquire about the disappearance. Twenty-one days later, his body and that of his brother were found in the jungle near the village. Their genitals had been cut off, eyes gouged out, both hands cut off and they were cut down the torso into two pieces. Religious persecution, eviction and population transfers The acts of religious persecution to which Rohingyas are reportedly subjected involve the closing and destruction of mosques, harassment and killing of religious leaders and worshippers, a ban on most forms of religious activity and the inability to obtain Islamic books and materials. Numerous Muslims are said to have been subjected to random acts of harassment in public places. There have also been numerous reports of the military and Lone Htein officers confiscating or tearing the National Registration cards of Muslims. In 1991, the Marakesh mosque in Maungdaw was reportedly closed while 800 persons were inside. On 3 April 1992, the armed forces reportedly killed more than 300 and wounded more than 150 worshippers at the Maungdaw mosque, when more than 3000 persons are said to have been assembled to celebrate the end of the month of Ramadan. According to the information received, the army, which