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683. Ensure the safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable return of refugees and
internally displaced people to their original lands or places of their choice, in full
consultation with the affected communities and by ensuring informed consent;
684. Minimize the use and effects of landmines, IEDs and ERW, and ensure that civilians
are informed of their presence, including by marking contaminated areas and otherwise
informing the populations in affected areas, and undertake mine clearance operations as
soon as hostilities abate.
Rohingya
685. Take all necessary steps to ensure and expedite the safe, voluntary, dignified and
sustainable return of the Rohingya to their homes and lands, in accordance with
international standards;
686. Restore their citizenship rights and suspend the NVC process, while identifying
alternative ways to ensure that Rohingya can apply directly for and receive full citizenship,
including from abroad, through an effective and prompt process;
687. Remove all movement restrictions in Rakhine that are specifically applicable to
Rohingya and that are applied in a discriminatory manner to them;
688. Ensure to all persons in Rakhine State, including Rohingya, full enjoyment of
human rights and fundamental freedoms on the basis of equality.
Accountability
689. Cooperate with all accountability mechanisms, including the International Criminal
Court, the International Court of Justice and the newly-established Independent
Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, with a view to expediting accountability for serious
crimes under international law and reparations for victims of those crimes;
690. Introduce complementary and credible national accountability measures to
investigate and prosecute crimes under international law, including crimes of genocide, and
do so in accordance with international fair trial standards;
691. Ensure that any accountability process provides full and effective remedies for
victims of human rights violations in the appropriate form of restitution, compensation,
rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition.
Obligations under the Genocide Convention
692. Conduct effective investigations into the underlying acts of genocide documented in
the Mission’s 2018 report and, where appropriate, prosecute and punish those guilty;
693. Enact the domestic legislation necessary to punish the crimes of genocide,
conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, attempt
to commit genocide and complicity in genocide and to provide effective penalties for
persons guilty of those crimes;
694. Repeal or amend laws, including Constitutional provisions, that permit those guilty
of crimes of genocide to evade punishment;
695. Take all necessary measures, including legislative and other measures, to deter those
harbouring genocidal intent and the serious risk of genocide to the Rohingya people.
2.
To the United Nations and the international community:
Monitoring and reporting
696. Remain seized of the human rights situation in Myanmar, through continued close
monitoring and public reporting, discussion in international human rights fora and dialogue
and cooperation with the Government of Myanmar;
697. Provide the necessary mandate and allocate adequate resources to the Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights and to the Special Rapporteur on human rights in
Myanmar, for regular human rights reports, including to the Human Rights Council, on
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