A/HRC/25/64 ward to provide education for the children. About 700 university students have been unable to gain access to education since May 2012. Working-age residents, many of whom are traders, remain unable to access their livelihoods. The Special Rapporteur also visited the Khoung Dote Khar Rohingya IDP camp in Sittwe. The violations of the rights to freedom of movement, access to health care, education, livelihoods and places of worship he saw in the IDP camp and Aung Mingalar represent a microcosm of the violations suffered by the 140,000 people still in IDP camps and the 36,000 people living in crisis-affected villages across Rakhine State, the vast majority of whom are Rohingya. Of the six hospitals in Rakhine State, only two are currently accepting Muslim patients (with a limited number of beds provided). 45. Ordinary Rakhine Buddhists have a genuine and legitimate desire to have their economic, social and cultural rights respected, promoted and protected after years of neglect. The grievances of the Rakhine Buddhist community must be heard, including with regard to the regulation and management of borders and to immigration policy. Local communities under the poverty line and without electricity have voiced their grievances about not receiving the benefits from projects such as the Kyaukpyu–Kunming dual oil and gas pipeline in Rakhine State, and they need to be listened to. However, the Special Rapporteur is concerned that influential community, political and religious groups are propagating an agenda to rid Rakhine State of the estimated one million Rohingyas who live there. The organizers of hate campaigns (see para. 21 above) and the instigators of violence continue to act with impunity. The United Nations and international NGO actors, who are providing life-saving humanitarian assistance to all communities in Rakhine State, continue to be harassed and threatened by those groups, with some forced to terminate their operations. Local and central authorities are not intervening to fulfil their obligations under international human rights law. 46. Since the violence broke out in June 2012, the Special Rapporteur has highlighted the obligation of the State to hold those responsible for human rights violations to account. Yet up to this point, no credible investigation has taken place to uncover the human rights violations that have occurred there. The Government has prosecuted people from both communities accused of being involved in the violence. However, no State officials have been held to account and, in the absence of an independent and credible investigation, it remains unclear whether the main perpetrators have been prosecuted. 47. During his latest visit, the Special Rapporteur met with the chief of Rakhine State police. He informed the Special Rapporteur that in Du Chee Yar Tan village (in Maungdaw township) on 13 and 14 January 2014, the police conducted a large security operation involving over 100 police officers armed with live ammunition to search for a police officer who was taken by the villagers and reportedly killed. He stated that homes had been searched in the village and surrounding areas, but that no warrant had been secured to do that. He said that journalists and NGOs had been denied access to the village, but that the United Nations and diplomatic community had been on accompanied visits. He denied that there had been any incident that had compromised the physical integrity or property of the villagers. However, the Special Rapporteur has continued to receive allegations of serious human rights violations being committed during that police operation, which also involved Rakhine mobs, including allegations of the brutal killing of men, women and children, sexual violence against women and the looting and burning of properties. 48. The Special Rapporteur is concerned that domestic investigations have so far failed to satisfactorily address these serious allegations. He recognizes that the Government has shown a willingness to engage with the international community on key issues such as forced labour, economic development and even training in international human rights standards for the police and military. He urges that cooperation to extend to one of the most 12

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