A written statement submitted to the Human Rights Council, 23rd session by the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC), a non-governmental organisation with general consultative status... 1. Following the communal violence that wracked the western parts of Myanmar near the border of Bangladesh in 2012, the country?s president established a commission of inquiry comprising of retired public servants, religious figures, politicians, academics and members of civil society. The commission handed down its findings on 22 April 2013. Despite high expectations, the 119-page report is gravely flawed. Although it contains a few useful recommendations and observations, to which the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar alluded in a press release of 1 May 2013, the commission?s positive contributions are outweighed by a range of omissions and misrepresentations and by an us-versus-them mentality that pervades the document..."