A/HRC/RES/S-27/1 Expressing grave concern at the recent reports of serious violations and abuses of human rights in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine State, as well as in Kachin State and northern Shan State, Recalling the reports of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, including the report submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-fourth session3 and the report submitted to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session,4 welcoming the cooperation of the Government of Myanmar with the Special Rapporteur, including the facilitation of her visits to some parts of the country in June and July 2016, January 2017 and, most recently, July 2017, and echoing her concerns regarding limitations on access, Welcoming the oral update presented to the Human Rights Council by the factfinding mission in September 2017, 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 3 4 2 A/HRC/34/67. A/72/382.