provide ‘informal’ learning ... that ... should be either in Myanmar or English”.17° An education sector update from the same month lists the languages in which teaching guides, student materials and workbooks, flashcards and posters, were being printed, and ends: “NO STUDENT MATERIAL IN BANGLA.”272 All teachers and many of the children who Human Rights Watch interviewed said that the Bangladesh government had prohibited instruction in the Bengali language in the camps. Four Rohingya men who work as learning center instructors, who live in the same area of one camp, said they were notified of the prohibition in November 2017 by the majA/in their area — a Rohingya refugee, typically a man with higher social status, responsible for overseeing 100 people, and reporting to the Bangladeshi “Camp in-Charge” (CIC) - who warned that “anyone who teaches Bangla will go to jail for six months.”172 A Rohingya man, Anwar Islam, who lives in a different camp and teaches in an unrecognized community school there, said that the CIC of his camp “told people who told the ma/hi, you’re not allowed to teach in Bangla or you’ll be punished.” Asked whether he wanted to be allowed to teach Bengali, Islam, a former elementary-school teacher, said that since Rohingya are from Rakhine state, “we’re in Myanmar, but we live close to Bangladesh so we need both languages.”473 Rohingya teachers also identified a need for Bengali language instruction. Nur Bashar, 42, who graduated from Sittwe University before Rohingya students were effectively banned in 2012 and who is now teaching the Myanmar curriculum to students out of his own shelter, said, “instruction in English, Burmese and Bangla — all are needed.”174 Mohamed Siddia, 32, was a volunteer “community teacher” in Myanmar — he taught at the request of villagers after non-Rohingya teachers refused to teach at their school — and now works as a *7° Guidelines for Informal Education Program (GIEP) for Children of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals (FDMN) in Bangladesh, May 15, 2019, p.1, https://www.globalpartnership.org/sites/default/files/2019-05-bangladesh-informal-education-program-rohingya.pdf (accessed July 17, 2019). 171 Emphasis in original. Cox’s Bazar Education Sector, “LCFA Task Force Meeting, May 5, 2019,” https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o7ztivoqui6nmjsn/AACEs|Lh1ibCw686YDUMCpYrda?dl=o&preview=TWiG_MM.docx 172 Human Rights Watch interviews with instructors Jamin, Mohamad Hanim, Mohamad Yunaid, and Jani Alam, Cox’s Bazar, February 9, 2019. 173 Human Rights Watch interview, Anwar Islam, Cox’s Bazar, February 15, 2019. 174 Human Rights Watch interview, Nur Bashar, Cox’s Bazar, February 15, 2019. 49 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | DECEMBER 2019