A/HRC/42/CRP.5 you as well. You have to receive the NVC. We will burn your village and turn into ashes.”159 A few days later, on or around 27 August, the 33 rd LID attacked villages in the Chut Pyin village tract after villagers rejected the cards.160 92. A similar meeting took place on the same day in front of an old mosque in Min Gyi (Tu Lar Tu Li) village tract in northern Maungdaw Township. It is less clear who from the government attended or spoke at the meeting.161 When the villagers said they would not accept the NVC cards, the person conducting the meeting, referred to by one witness as “the chief”, said “If you don’t receive it, you will suffer, you will be destroyed.”162 Soon after the Tatmadaw attacked the village.163 93. In March 2018, the media quoted Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as saying, “Rohingya do not have any characteristics or culture in common with the ethnicities of Myanmar” and “the current conflict has been fuelled because the Bengalis demanded citizenship”.164 These incidents and statements strengthen the inference that the military’s attack on the Rohingya was carried out with genocidal intent to destroy the Rohingya, in whole or in part, as a people.165 2. Annual household list 94. Government authorities conduct an annual household listing exercise to record those living in Myanmar. Each year’s list adds newborns and deletes the names of the departed or deceased. The process includes taking photos of all family members in a household, often carrying a card with individual names and their “serial number” on the household list. 95. Household lists are issued and updated by the Ministry of Immigration and Population and the Ministry of Home Affairs.166 They are the only form of identification for many Rohingya since the revocation of Temporary Registration Cards on 31 March 2015,167 which established their place of origin and rights to their property. The household lists are so important that Rohingya the Mission interviewed in camps in Bangladesh showed interviewers their household photos, with the cards with their names that they had brought with them when they fled Myanmar. 96. Being absent from a household list puts people at risk of arrest, detention and extortion. Individuals not on a household list could also be denied access to basic services, including healthcare, education or other essential administrative services, including NVC applications, and marriage and travel permits.168 97. These risks are so severe that Rohingya who arrived in Bangladesh during the reporting period told the Mission that they had fled due to their inability to register on the household lists.169 98. Persons interviewed by the Mission reported that authorities were aggressive during the annual listing process and randomly removed individuals from the list, including those 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 CI-185. CI-191, LM-014, XM-008, V-067, V-071. For a detailed account of these attacks, see A/HRC/39/CRP.2, paras. 779-798. CI-197, CI-198. CI-198. For a detailed account of these attacks, see A/HRC/39/CRP.2, paras. 756-778. Reuters, “Myanmar rejects citizenship reform at private Rohingya talks”, 27 June 2018. A/HRC/39/CRP.2, paras. 1422-1424 Household lists are issued by the Immigration and National Identification Headquarters, which is jointly maintained by the General Administration Department which is under the supervision of Ministry of the Office of the Union Government since December 2018 and the Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population. A/HRC/39/CRP.2 paras. 583-584. FFFGEN-1-84278, FI-024, FI-029, A/HRC/39/CRP.2, para 466, 593, 603, 607. CI-240, CI-241, CI-242, CI-245, FI-029. 31