"...We have submitted written statements and made oral ones at many sessions and have been twice invited by the United States Congress to present testimony at hearings. Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l?amitié entre les peuples (MRAP) has also monitored the situation in Myanmar for many years and joins this statement. Last August, IED and AHL called attention to the escalating violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar in a written statement (A/HRC/24/NGO/92) to this body. The intervening months demonstrated the alarming endurance of that disturbing ethnic persecution, with the displacement, b eating, or slaughter of yet more innocents at the hands of predominantly Buddhist mobs. The death count still rising, the international community has shamefully taken little action to pressure the much-trumpeted ?democratic” government of Myanmar into getting a grip on this out of control mob-rule. Indeed, the government of Myanmar has openly denied that the violence is even occurring. According to a UN report, on January 9th, eight Rohingya men were killed in the Du Chee Yar Tan village. After a police sergeant was killed in the intervening days, on January 13th, a violent Buddhist mob vengefully slaughtered forty Rohingya men, women, and children. We thank the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay for her strong words on the massacre: ?I deplore the loss of life in Du Chee Yar Tan and call on the authorities to carry out a full, prompt and impartial investigation and ensure that victims and their families receive justice... By responding to these incidents quickly and decisively, the Government has an opportunity to show transparency and accountability, which will strengthen democracy and the rule of law in Myanmar..."