A/HRC/42/CRP.3 During a ceremony held in Nay Pyi Taw on 20 October 2017, owners of various companies pledged close to USD 13.5 million to the UEHRD for this reconstruction.245 In support of the UEHRD initiative, Asia World Group, Eden Group, KBZ Group, and Max Myanmar have been involved in the construction of roads that go through villages destroyed in the 2017 clearance operations,246 the building of processing sites for Rohingya that have been described as internment camps,247 and the construction of a border fence between Myanmar and Bangladesh.248 108. Asia World Group, as part of UEHRD’s Infrastructure Development and Construction Task Force, built an 80 kilometre road in northern Rakhine State through its charitable arm, the Foundation of the Asia World Group.249 Satellite imagery and analysis shows that the road connects Ah Ngu Maw village tract, at the southern tip of the peninsula in Rathedaung Township, with the border crossing at Taung Pyo Let Yar.250 The route runs through many of the villages attacked and burned during the 2017 violence, including Koe Tan Kauk251 and Inn Din.252 109. Chit Khine, the chairperson of Eden Group, has announced that his construction company would build one of two processing sites for returning Rohingya refugees in Nga Khu Ya near the Myanmar-Bangladesh border.253 Local civil society organisations have serious concerns that these processing sites will function as internment camps, given their similarities to the displacement camps and sites established after the 2012 violence in 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 38 Radio Free Asia, “Myanmar Executives Pledge Millions to Rebuild Tattered Rakhine State,” 20 October 2017 (https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/myanmar-executives-pledge-millions-torebuild-tattered-rakhine-state-10202017162452.html).Ben Dunant, “Tycoons on the Frontline of Rakhine Reconstruction,” Voice of America, 23 January 2018 (https://www.voanews.com/a/businessleaders-support-myanmar-reconstruction/4219898.html). As documented below, the route runs through many of the villages attacked and burned during the 2017 violence, including Koe Tan Kauk, Rathedaung Township, and Inn Din, Maungdaw Township. The Asia World Group segment of the road, runs from Ah Ngu Maw village tract, at the southern tip of the peninsula in Rathedaung Township to Maungdaw Township in northern Rakhine. For more information, see: “Asia World Foundation Fulfil the Needs of Local Communities along the Upgraded Angumaw-Maungdaw Road,” 28 March 2019 (http://asiaworldfoundation.org/english/2019/03/28/asia-world-foundation-fulfill-the-needs-of-localcommunities-along-the-upgraded-angumaw-maungdaw-road/). Concerns regarding Rohingya being deprived of their liberty and freedom of movement in transit or resettlement camps built for Rohingya in northern Rakhine have been informed by statements of the Commander-in-Chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. On 5 May 2018, he was quoted as saying that for returning Rohingya, who he referred to as “Bengalis”, “There is no need to be worried about their security if they stay in the areas designated for them.” See: “Rohingya safe in designated areas: Myanmar army chief,” The Straights Times, 6 May 2018 (https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/seasia/rohingya-safe-in-designated-areas-myanmar-army-chief). Htet Naing Zaw, “Myanmar Govt to Fence Remaining 40-mile Border with Bangladesh”, The Irrawaddy, 8 September 2017 (https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-govt-to-fenceremaining-40-mile-border-with-bangladesh.html). Asia World Foundation responds to call by UEHRD and contributes not-for-profit road project in Rakhine,” Asia World Foundation, 6 January 2018 (http://asiaworldfoundation.org/english/2018/01/06/asia-world-foundation-responds-to-call-by-uehrdand-contributes-not-for-profit-road-project-in-rakhine/). UNOSAT Report, February 2019. “Asia World Foundation has completed the first 21 km of the Angumaw-Maungtaw Road Development Project in Rakhine State from Angumaw to Kotankauk,” Asia World Foundation, 17 May 2018 (http://asiaworldfoundation.org/english/2018/05/17/asia-world-foundation-has-completedthe-first-21-km-of-the-angumaw/). Mratt Kyaw Thu, “Security, infrastructure in northern Rakhine receives massive cash boost after refugee exodus,” Frontier Myanmar, 11 October 2017 (https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/securityinfrastructure-in-northern-rakhine-receives-massive-cash-boost-after-refugee-exodus). Ben Dunant, “Tycoons on the Frontline of Rakhine Reconstruction,” Voice of America, 23 January 2018 (https://www.voanews.com/a/business-leaders-support-myanmar-reconstruction/4219898.html). Eden Group partners with China Heavy Machinery Corporation in Myanmar’s largest coal mine, the Tigyit Mine, in Shan State.).