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Yes, the Muslim Rohingya people are in dire straits. The United
Nations needs to go into action and the necessary steps need to be
taken to guarantee all the rights to life of the Rohingya people if they
are to be saved. If the events in the Maungdaw region are to be pre-
vented from growing and if the truth of the slaughters is to be deter-
mined, it is a matter of the gravest urgency for an international inves-
tigation team to go in and conduct inquiries before the evidence is all

destroyed. After that, permanent measures need to be taken so the
people removed from the embargoed village can return to their
homes and a safe environment can be provided for them. The main
steps needing to be taken are putting a halt to the torture, rapes, loot-
ing, illegal arrests and killings, investigations to be conducted into
those involved in such illegal practices and the appropri-
ate legal measures to be taken, and for the internation-
al media to be given the opportunity to examine the
scene of the events.

After that, it is vitally important for a
U.N. Peace Force to be sent to the Rakhine

region in order to guarantee the safety of
the Rohingya people. The most impor-
tant step after that is for the U.N. to take
the requisite steps for the granting of citizenship
rights to the Rohingya people and for the protection of those
rights. Contacts need to be established with the Myanmar
government so that they can benefit from all public rights
such as education, health, drugs and treatment like all other
citizens of the country and so they can enjoy all

human rights.

Every person of good con-
science of course has a responsibili-