Bangladesh, Burma and the Rohingya crisis • 43 “ … the 5-point plan remains a valid framework for addressing the current crisis.” … “It is unfortunately true that limited progress has been made on these objectives.”123 Second report and reply 99. Our further report on the crisis was, essentially, an urgent call for action in the light of the compelling pleas we heard in Cox’s Bazar for measures to be facilitated to protect the Rohingya from the expected heavy rainfall of the monsoon season. The key request was for more land to be found and prepared to enable those most vulnerable to move to safer ground. Since this second report on the crisis published in March after our visit to the refugee camps there have been a few developments but no emerging clarity about the longer term. Recent developments 100. Recent key developments have been: 123 124 125 126 127 • In the “Report of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence” for 2017 (dated 23 March 2018) Burma’s military forces, the ‘Tatmadaw’, were named and added to the list of armies known to commit sexual violence in armed conflict.124 • Over nine months since the expulsion of the Rohingya by Burma, Save the Children, amongst others, highlight “a child protection crisis on the doorstep” as babies begin to be born–and some abandoned–arising out of the multiple cases of rape of Rohingya women and girls by Burmese military personnel.125 In addition to this further human tragedy and trauma, the UN Envoy for Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, and UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Andrew Gilmour, have jointly pointed out the grave risks of inadequate access to midwifery and medical assistance due to the heavy stigmatisation of pregnancy in such circumstances as well as the imminent onset of the monsoon season.126 • The Burmese military have punished seven soldiers for the murder of 10 Rohingya in the village of Inn Din in Rakhine. A statement from the Burmese army said: “Four officers were denounced and permanently dismissed from the military and sentenced to 10 years with hard labour at a prison in a remote area. Three soldiers of other rank were demoted to the rank of ‘private’, permanently dismissed from the military and sentenced to 10 years with hard labour at a prison in a remote area”. Subsequently, on 18 April, there were conflicting media reports of these men being released under a prisoner amnesty.127 Bangladesh and Burma: the Rohingya crisis—monsoon preparedness in Cox’s Bazar: Government response to the Committee’s Third Report, Fifth Special Report, 2017–19, HC 1055, 22 May 2018 Report of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence, paragraphs 10, 12, 17, 55–60 and Annex - List of parties credibly suspected of committing or being responsible for patterns of rape or other forms of sexual violence in situations of armed conflict on the agenda of the Security Council, p34, “Parties in Myanmar, State actors: (a) Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw).” (Http://undocs.org/s/2018/250) But see Nine months on, a race against time to find pregnant Rohingya rape survivors, IRIN news, 16 April 2018 Pregnant Rohingya Refugees Are in Desperate Need, Joint article by UN Envoy for Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, and UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Andrew Gilmour, Bloomberg, 9 May 2018 ‘Did Soldiers Jailed for Killings Go Free? Myanmar TV Says Yes (Briefly)’ The New York Times, 18 April 2018