POINTS and OBSERVATIONS,

CAUSE and EFFECT,

RESPONSIBILITY and CONSEQUENCES
AS REVEALED in the
DETAILED STATEMENTS of WITNESSES in the
INDEPENDENT COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY (ICOE) REPORT
by Rick Heizman, February 19, 2020

Many of you may have seen the SUMMARY of the 430 page REPORT by the ICOE
(Independent Commission of Enquiry) released on January 20, 2020. 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 report, released in part, in mid-January, 2020, is far better, more balanced, honest,
truthful, in-depth, verified, cross-checked, and researched, than the U.N. Fact Finding
Mission Report (October, 2018), and the Final Report of the Kofi Annan-led Commission on
Rakhine State (Aug 24, 2017). The U.N. FFM Report is full of inherent U.N. bias,
inaccuracies, unverified and wildly exaggerated claims and speculation, and almost nothing
from or about the primary victims - the Buddhists, Hindus, and ethnic minorities. The same
can be said about the Kofi Annan Report and Recommendations.

This is why Reuters, Fortify Rights, Human Rights Watch, Frontier Myanmar, and all other
ignorant and arrogant Bengali terrorist supporting quislings (both intentional and naive) hate
the ICOE report and even advise people NOT to read it! In fact, many of these people and
organizations condemned the report from the day that the ICOE was established (July 2018).
This shows their arrogant bias so clearly! It is childish and nonsensical to condemn a report
even BEFORE it is written - whether it is your child’s report card, a job evaluation, a medical
report or an international issue of concern.

SOME POINTS that the DETAILS of the ATTACK CASES bring up:
Please read carefully, this is very important to understand well

• If you read even just three of the many

witness statements with verified details of the
attacks, from the ICOE Report (that I have
summarized, posted, tweeted and put out)
you will see the enormity of the simultaneous,
pre-planned, surprise attacks, in which the
Police, Border Guard Police, Army, AND
CIVILIANS were greatly outnumbered and
overwhelmed.

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• The numbers of the assailants (Bengali
Muslims) fighting a Jihad (a holy war in the
cause of Allah) was staggering - per attack, an
average of perhaps 300 - 1000. Take those
numbers, multiply by 30 (even though there
were many many attacks against villages, aside
from the acknowledged 30 against security
forces outposts) and you can see there were
9000 - 30,000 assailants. The number of coordinated attacks against targets, plus the
sheer numbers of attackers make this the largest Islamic (or other) coordinated terrorist
attacks in ALL of HISTORY. What other Islamic attack on planet earth has had so many
targets attacked simultaneously, and with such a high number of assailants?

• ALL the incidents involving allegations of ‘massacres’ and ‘human rights abuses’ (in Tula
Toli, Chut Pyin, Maung Nu, Gu Dar Pyin, and others) those incidents were a DIRECT
RESPONSE (whether there were abuses or not) to overwhelming attacks against the
security forces AND CIVILIANS by the Bengali Muslims who were carrying out
systematically well-planned attacks with GENOCIDAL INTENT.

• So many witnesses, both Muslim and non-Muslim, indicate that the army (with very few
exceptions) was not trigger happy, abusive, nor excessive, and in fact, at times troops
were helpful - providing medical treatment, food supplies, and protecting civilians - and
that included Muslims (as long as they were known or assumed to be non-violent and had
not participated in the Jihad). There are quite a number of Muslim witnesses who clearly
stated that when troops arrived at their (Muslim) village, they would say such things as:
You don’t have to leave for Bangladesh, We will not shoot you, If you are guiltless you are
okay, We will protect you and bring food supplies, Use care - don’t run in front of us, don’t
run away from us, and don’t carry weapons - We don’t want any mistakes to happen and
you will be okay to stay here.

• Many Rakhine Buddhists talk about the Muslims that they used to work with, and the
honest friendships that they had, but starting a few months to a year before the attacks of
August 25, 2017, the Muslim workers were warned and prohibited by the Mawlawis
(Imams) to stop all relations with non-Muslims or they would be punished severely or even
have their heads cut off. Many Buddhists describe how they were warned of the attacks
by their Muslim friends a day or two before the attacks.

• The systematic planning for these attacks was profound. The Mawlawis (Imams) of the
mosques were essentially ALL part of the master plan. The Mawlawis together with the
ARSA leaders indoctrinated the largely illiterate Bengali Muslim villagers that it was
mandated to attend the mosque 5 times a day, and the Mawlawis would again and again
and again pound the plan into the people. The plan was that the Muslim men were
required to attend weapons, explosives, and fighting skills training with ARSA. At a given
time they would be given AK-47s or similar assault rifles. They would attack the security
forces first, by surprise, at a pre-determined time, overtake the outposts, slaughter all the
security forces, grab all the weapons and ammo, and then annihilate the Buddhists,
Hindus and ethnic minorities, and declare that land an autonomous (and apartheid)
Islamic State.

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• Buddhists and Hindus describe, many times,
seeing Muslims burn their own villages and
homes, as well as Buddhist and Hindu homes.
They note that they (the Buddhists and Hindus)
would vigorously try to stop the fires if their home
was threatened, but the Muslims would torch their
own homes and either flee, or just watch it burn.
Some witnesses described seeing Rakhine
civilians or security forces burning the Muslim
homes, BUT, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE: Buddhist
and Hindu homes were often set ablaze while STILL occupied, but Muslim homes were
torched AFTER the occupants fled, and often there was some justification of doing that,
namely, for the sake of security. In some areas ARSA was still staging attacks and
ambushes, and laying landmines for many days. The Buddhists, Hindus, and tribal
minorities were being sheltered in police outposts, schools or monasteries with a
minimum measure of safety. With dense foliage and abandoned houses all around,
terrorist could sneak up closely and wreak havoc - as the sometimes did. The
outnumbered security forces needed to flatten the obvious hiding places FOR THE
SAFETY OF THE CIVILIANS AND THEMSELVES. Villagers who have been brutally
attacked, having seen some of their fellow villagers killed, and have been through all of
this madness in 2016, 2012, and again and again, can justifiably get rid of the nest which
harbored and enabled the violent aggressors. Frankly, it is the attackers who must face
the consequences of their own violent acts!

• War is not clean. War is dirty and bloody - especially when fighting Islamic terrorists /
militants / jihadists. These kind of terrorists do not observe ANY ‘rules of war’,
‘international agreements of war crimes’, ‘civilian human rights’ etc. Islamic terrorists
routinely break all the ‘rules of combat’: no distinctive uniforms to differentiate from
civilians, using civilians - especially women and children - as human shields to draw their
enemy into creating ‘collateral damage’ and ‘damaging media’, melting into and fighting
from villages, using ambushes and landmines indiscriminately resulting in civilian
casualties, intentional and willful targeting of civilians, execution of civilians, etc.

• These kinds of terrorists are NOT a country which can be called upon to observe any
‘rules of war’ etc. These kinds of terrorist groups cannot be sued or demanded to appear
in any kind of court in the world. (example: How could one have sued or served court
papers to Osama bin-Laden? He, or anyone from his al-Qaeda terrorist group would
never accept ANY court orders, demands to honor ‘civilian human rights’ or anything like
that.) But, in this conflict in Rakhine State the nation of Myanmar can be sued, can be
served court papers, can be ordered to appear in a court, can have U.N. proceedings
held against it, can have sanctions and actions put in place, can be charged with anything
the terrorist ARSA group says - and yet the terrorists operating with ARSA can escape
ALL of the above actions. It is inherently flawed, and inherently biased against the
VICTIMS of the TERRORISTS. In a fair world, it is ARSA that should be charged by the
courts and the U.N. etc., along with its sponsors and enablers such as Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, Qatar, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.

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• The Bengali Muslims made staggering quantities of explosives and weapons over many
many months in preparation for their planned Jihad - bombs, various wired and remotely
detonated land mines, jingali arrows, crude homemade guns, etc.

• What about Cause and Effect, Karma, Responsibility, Consequences?

Buddhist refugees, August 2017, walking in the

center of the path.

Bengali Muslims walking only on the sides of

the roads, not in the middle - WHY?

I learned that the Bengali Muslims were warned by ARSA leaders and the Mawlawis:

The Bengali homemade landmines, were always buried IN THE CENTER of the roads, in
order to target trucks and vehicles that could carry security forces, and as I summarize the
attack details you will be astonished how many landmines the Bengalis made and laid.

By Rick Heizman, February 19, 2020

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