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They are unable to benefit from education, social rights such as
health and public services, are refused admittance to hospital and
cannot work in public offices. Since they have no means to attain edu-
cation, illiteracy levels stand at 80%. They are unable to obtain birth
certificates for their children and have no permission to marry. They
cannot own land or property. They have no right to build concrete
houses and can only live in ones made of timber or bamboo, and these

can easily be destroyed when attacked and at times of heavy rain.

It is a known fact that the Rohingya people, regarded as "illegal
immigrants" in Myanmar since 1978, are subjected to a policy of
oppression and persecution. These policies have been stepped up since
June 2012. From that time on, 240 people have lost their lives, mainly
Muslims living in the province of Rakhine, and more than 250,000 have
been displaced.

Attacks against the Rohingya people have not ended. On January
th
14 2014, the Myanmar Armed Forces, Police Forces (Hlun Hteins) and
Rakhine terrorists carried out a savage and bloody attack on the
Rohingya village of Du-Chira-Dan (Kilai-Daung). Eyewitnesses main-

tain that some 60 people were killed in the attacks, many innocent vil-
lagers were detained; women and girls were raped and that 200 women,
six men and five children have gone missing. Human rights organi-
zations reported that hundreds of people fled the region in terror in
an attack on the village of Du Char Yar Tan, inherited by Rohingya Mus-
lims. At present, 340 homes and a settlement area inhabited by 4,000
people have been totally evacuated. Authorities have declared the vil-
lage to be a 'forbidden zone' and external observers, journalists and
Rohingya people are banned from entering the village.

The events are alleged to have begun with the killing of eight
Rohingya by Aung Zan Ohyu, the chief of Duchiradan village. The chief

wished to conceal the crime since it had been witnessed by villagers

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