Rakhine State, said that “Rohingya children from settlements [in Myanmar] without any schools were unable join because of the travel restrictions.”42 Rohingya in Myanmar have been barred from holding teaching positions because they are denied citizenship, contributing to a lack of Rohingya teachers. Nur Bashar, 42, received a BA in Geography from Sittwe University in 2003, but had to work as an agricultural laborer in a village because his lack ofa “national ID” prevented him from being hired as a teacher.43 Most teachers at government schools in Rakhine State are ethnically Rakhine or Bamar, not Rohingya, and some have refused to work in majority-Rohingya areas due to safety concerns.44 One Rohingya refugee said that during the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years he volunteered at a primary school in his village because “all the teachers at the school were Buddhist and they wouldn’t come to teach.”45 Some children and teachers told Human Rights Watch that the Myanmar military had interfered in their schools in Rakhine State. Mohamad M., 45, a former teacher in Myanmar, said that “the problems started three years ago” when Myanmar security forces first came to his school. Sometimes they captured students and forced students and teachers to carry water and wood for them. So everyone was afraid to go. They didn’t torture teachers, but they did torture some students. Six months before [August 2017], | had to stop going to teach at all [due to the danger].4¢ Mohamed A., 17, said he was a student in class 8 in Myanmar when he dropped out of school, three months before he fled to Bangladesh due to attacks in August 2017. The army was in the school and the classroom. Sometimes the soldiers were drinking [alcohol] in the classroom and threatening students. When 42 Human Rights Watch interview with Royes, learning center instructor, Cox’s Bazar, February 5, 2019. 43 Human Rights Watch interview, Nur Bashar, Cox’s Bazar, February 15, 2019. 44 Center for Diversity and National Harmony, Rakhine State Needs Assessment, September 2015, p. 96; Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK, The Right to Education Denied for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, p. 5, http://burmacampaign.org.uk/media/The-Right-to-Education-Denied-for-Rohingya-Refugees-in-Bangladesh.pdf (accessed June 3, 2019); Amnesty International, “Caged Without a Roof”: Apartheid in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, November 21, 2017. 45 Human Rights Watch interview with Jamin, learning center instructor, Cox’s Bazar, February 9, 2019. 46 Human Rights Watch interview with Mohamad “ARE WE HUMAN?” M., Cox’s Bazar, February 10, 2019. 24