[5] According to Amnesty International, the Rohingya have suffered from human rights violations under past military dictatorships since 1978, and many have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh as a result.
Villagers who escaped from the massacre claim that during the briefing, soldiers and collaborators who live in Rakhine went to all of the huts which were inhabited by Rohingyas to loot valuables and detain people at random.
[2] On the morning of 30 August 2017, the Myanmar Army and local collaborators surrounded Tula Toli and blocked off all the exit points.
Satellite images provided by Amnesty International show all the Rohingya huts in the village burnt, whilst the Rakhine ones remained intact.
[13] According to survivors, the men were lined up along the riverbank and shot by automatic rifles, decapitated, burned alive, lynched or blown up by rocket-propelled grenades.
[2] The soldiers paused for a moment afterwards and shouted for any survivors to stand up, then fired their rifles again to ensure the victims' deaths.
[citation needed] The bodies were buried in mass graves alongside the riverbank by the army and burnt to avoid leaving evidence of the massacre.