armed AA fighters storming homes, separating men from their families, and taking them away with no warning or justification. Those who resist or attempt to flee face risk and retaliation against their families. As a result, they would leave the entire family or the community in a state of fear and helplessness. Mohammad Imran estimates that 3,000 to 4,000 Rohingya men were abducted from various villages in Buthidaung and Rathidaung townships alone. Saifullah, a 17-year-old man whose testimony is very relevant, narrates his own story in the following manner. In my village, Dabboriyong, the AA abducted at least 15 to 20 individuals, including one of my uncles. These abductions were carried out with extreme brutality. Most of the people taken were either killed or disappeared, with little to no information reaching their families. The AA targets the Rohingya out of deep-seated hatred, falsely accusing us of being outsiders from Bangladesh and treating us as enemies without cause. The objective behind these abductions appears to be part of a broader campaign of ethnic cleansing and terror. The AA often uses the justification that Rohingya are enemies or infiltrators. In reality, the goal seems to be to eliminate the presence of Rohingya from Rakhine by instilling fear, destroying families, and using victims as human shields in their conflict with the Myanmar military. Facing a similar fate, Saifullah, in his testimony, elaborates that he was also taken away. Describing his captivity life, he states, “I was abducted from my home around midnight, four months ago (September 2024), by the AA. They gave no explanation and we were too terrified to question them asking anything that would only result in brutal beatings. I was taken, along with nine other young men from his village, to a military camp that the AA had captured from the Myanmar army. There, we were interrogated and tortured.” He further asserts that they repeatedly beat him with wires, sticks, punched and kicked him while accusing us of having links with the Myanmar military or ARSA. They wanted to know if ARSA had any presence in our village. “We were given barely any food or water, and sometimes we had to survive on tree leaves. The living conditions were horrific, and he describes his abduction as a deliberate form of psychological and physical punishment for simply being a member of the Rohingya community. 67