A/HRC/S-27/3 Noting with deep concern the flash report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights dated 3 February 2017, entitled “Interviews with Rohingyas fleeing from Myanmar since 9 October 2016”, prepared following a mission by the Office to Bangladesh, and its report dated September 2017, entitled “Mission report of OHCHR rapid response mission to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh”, Alarmed by the statements and reports from the United Nations system on grave human rights violations and abuses carried out in a systematic, targeted and deliberate manner by security forces assisted by non-State actors in Rakhine State through the disproportionate use of force, extrajudicial and summary killings, including of children, sexual violence, including rape, indiscriminate firing of weapons and the planting of landmines, the destruction of property, livelihoods and futures, disappearances, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, attacks on places of worship and religious intolerance, resulting in large-scale forced displacement and indicating the very likely commission of crimes against humanity, Acknowledging the urgent need to restore law and order, peace and security to protect all civilians, including individuals in a vulnerable situation, from any harm or acts of reprisal, Highly alarmed at the outbreak of violence in Rakhine State in October 2016 and August 2017 that caused the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya civilians to Bangladesh, bringing the total to more than 600,000 Rohingyas, mainly women, children and the elderly, who have joined the hundreds of thousands of those among the Rohingya population previously displaced from Myanmar to Bangladesh that had fled violence in Myanmar in phases over the years, Noting with deep concern that, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, nearly 60 per cent of the Rohingya population who have been forced to flee to Bangladesh are children, and that a large number of those children are unaccompanied, separated or orphaned, Concerned that, despite the fact that the Rohingya population, especially Muslims, had been living in Myanmar for generations prior to its independence and have no ties to anywhere but Myanmar, they have been made stateless since the enactment of the 1982 Citizenship Law and since then have been subjected to restrictions on access to education, health services and livelihoods, underscoring that the lack of citizenship status and related civil and political rights of Rohingya Muslims and others, including voting rights, is a serious human rights violation, Welcoming the formation by the Government of Myanmar of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, chaired by Kofi Annan, which submitted its final report in August 2017,5 and the commitment of the Government of Myanmar to implementing the Commission’s recommendations and addressing the underlying causes of the situation in Rakhine State, Noting that the Government of Myanmar has established an investigation commission, led by Vice-President U Myint Swe, and encouraging the publication of a credible, independent and impartial investigation report on allegations of human rights violations without delay, Noting with serious concern reports of incitement to racial or religious hatred leading to violence, including the fuelling of intercommunal tension in central Rakhine 5. Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, “Towards a peaceful, fair and prosperous future for the people of Rakhine” (August 2017). Available at www.rakhinecommission.org/app/uploads/2017/08/FinalReport_Eng.pdf. 3