⏵ Forced Abduction and Conscription of the Community Forcible abduction of the Rohingyas has been a constant feature of Rohingya persecution in Rakhine. In our report, the chapter documents abduction and conscription crimes of the AA, but we must know that it has been perpetrated previously by the military as well. Specifically, after the communal violence in 2012, the military junta implemented a brutal policy of detaining men without legal process. Thousands of youths were unlawfully taken by the Myanmar military in a wave of arbitrary mass arrests. Brutal persecution, including manhunts and mass detentions, also intensified after a wave of genocide in 2017. The AA, observing this pattern of violence, employed similar tactics, resulting in thousands of deaths, the displacement of thousands, and the forced captivity, particularly in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships in the 2024 violence. For instance, forcible conscription is an inevitable part of their daily exploitation by Myanmar’s military regime. The junta has forced hundreds of the men from the community into military service. Once taken into conscription, the men are subjected to short and basic training before being deployed in conflict. This practice continues today, as evidenced by recent conscription warnings issued to men in the Dar Paing displacement camp in September 2024. With the military desperate to regain its areas lost to the Arakan Army, the already displaced Rohingya people are being coerced into a war they did not choose or want to be a part of. ➔ Forcible Abduction From all the testimonies collected for this chapter, it becomes explicitly clear that the pattern of forcible conscriptions begins with abductions. It would be done either with individual targets or village raids. However, the AA has increasingly relied on village raids as a preferred method for forced abductions. These raids, as revealed by our testimonies, often involve surrounding the entire village, conducting mass abductions of men and boys. After the village is taken over, they coerce them to be a part of the group under threat of violence. Eyewitness accounts describe 66