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affecting live-saving services, including healthcare and livelihood activities, especially
fishing at the peak night and early morning periods.287
151. In addition, the curfew prohibits gatherings of more than four people at any time in
mosques, schools, gardens, streets and other locations.288 The curfew has affected the ability
of the Rohingya to perform congregational prayers in mosques, especially the Friday and
Eid prayers, which have religious significance for Muslims, or attend burial prayer or
funerals.289 Some interviewees had to seek prior authorisation from the authorities for
weddings, burials or funerals, which is burdensome and costly and represents major
obstacles for community life.290 Such restrictions serve to weaken communal harmony and
reduce economic interaction. An interviewee told the Mission:
After the August 2017 events, the Village Administrator in a meeting announced that
curfew should be observed from dusk until dawn and villagers are not allowed to
move out of their villages. People are not permitted to get together, not even for
prayer, congregation, funeral and burial. Security forces have been ordered to shoot
anyone found in breach of these strict measures. These measures only apply to
Muslims because they are involved in bad acts.291
Consequences of the movement restrictions
152. The imposition of stringent movement restrictions has had severe adverse effects on
access to basic services for Rohingya. The tightening of movement restrictions prevents
Rohingya from accessing livelihood activities, such as fishing, 292 collecting firewood and/or
bamboo from the forest293 and cultivating land,294 and accessing life-saving health
services,295 education296 and food.297 Due to obstacles to accessing livelihood opportunities
as a result of the movement restrictions, supply of food has decreased with the resulting
spike in food prices.298 Movement restrictions have increased the dependency of Rohingya
on humanitarian assistance.
153. The inability to move freely has significantly obstructed access to education in
Rakhine State, which already has one of the lowest primary and secondary enrolment rates
in the country,299 as well as among the lowest adult literacy rates.300 In most areas, schools
remain closed. Where schools are open, children cannot travel or the school administration
does not allow Rohingya children to enrol.301 Movement restrictions also made access to
education beyond primary school for internally displaced Rohingya impossible. 302
According to reliable sources, only 892 Muslim students were enrolled in two high schools
across the State in 2018.303
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A/HRC/39/CRP.2, Para 540.
FI-007, FI-010, FI-027, A/HRC/39/CRP.2, Paras, 681-685.
FI-007, FI-010, FI-025, FI-027, FI-038.
FI-025, FI-027.
FI-007.
CI-229, CI-270, CI-305, CI-310, FI-007, FI-010, FI-024, FI-035, FI-046, FI-048.
CI-270, CI-305, CI-310, FI-007, FI-010, FI-024, FI-025, FI-027, FI-028, FI-035, FI-046, FI-048.
FI-038, LI-226.
CI-310, FI-026, V-370.
FI-035, FFFGEN-1-84224, FFFGEN-1-84223.
CI-229, CI-246, FI-028, FI-031, FI-035, FI-046.
CI-229, CI-246, FI-024, FI-025, FI-027, FI-028, FI-029, FI-031, V-370, LM-056, Relief Web, Special
Report - The 2018 FAO/WFP Agriculture and Food Security Mission to Rakhine State, Myanmar, 12
July 2019, available from https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/special-report-2018-faowfpagriculture-and-food-security-mission-rakhine-state.
The Government has not developed a strategy to strengthen the Rakhine State’s education despite the
Rakhine Advisory Commission recommendation. Final Report of the Rakhine Advisory Commission
on Rakhine State, recommendation 34.
FFFGEN-1555826851-1890.
FI-010, FI-035, FI-036, FI-045.
FFFGEN-1555826851-1890.
Ibid.
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