A/HRC/42/CRP.5 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 2018.303 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 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. 51

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