"...To date, the MNHRC [Myanmar National Human Rights Commission] has still not successfully investigated and taken effective action on any case submitted to it. Sitt Myaing, secretary of the MNHRC, stated in January that they haven?t received many complaints from war-torn areas. However, when the MNHRC chairman publicly announces that the institution won?t investigate complaints in active conflict areas, is this really a surprise? Despite the widespread and deeply serious violations taking place in conflict-affected areas, the reality that the MNHRC won?t investigate them is a significant flaw in its claim to take human rights seriously. Furthermore, the situation in Arakan State is deteriorating and rather than even a statement that denounces human rights abuses, as various other human rights organisations have done, the MNHRC has made itself complicit in the persecution of the Rohingya by acting as a tool to cover up atrocities committed by the police force and reinforcing perceptions that Rohingya are illegal immigrants..."