In early 2025, BROUK was still receiving reports of forced recruitment by the AA in Buthidaung
township.222 By March, the AA’s rhetoric appeared to shift, and the group instead began demanding
that Rohingya men and youth participate in their military training and form groups to protect their
villages from attacks by Rohingya armed groups. In late April and May, the AA stepped up their
demands. In one village tract of Maungdaw township, the AA has ordered that four or five men are
required to participate in the 45-day military training from each village in the tract.223 In another
village tract, the AA ordered that one man aged 18-40 from every family must participate in the
training, affecting around 750 families.224 Rohingya villagers in other areas of Maungdaw township
have also reported facing these demands.225
Recommendations
To the International Court of Justice:
• Urgently review Myanmar’s compliance with the provisional measures and formally communicate
its findings to the UN Security Council.
• Instruct Myanmar to make its reporting public at the time of submission to the Court due to the
public interest nature of the case, and to ensure transparency and rigorous scrutiny of its
compliance with the order.
• To prevent further irreparable harm to members of the Rohingya group, urgently amend the
existing provisional measures order or indicate further provisional measures to include (but not
limited to) requirements that Myanmar must immediately:
- Allow international, national, and local humanitarian actors immediate, unrestricted, and
sustained access to Rakhine State and Myanmar as a whole;
- Cease and desist from conscripting Rohingya into its armed forces or allied armed groups;
- Cease and desist from forcing the Rohingya to participate in public rallies in support of the
Myanmar military;
- End all arbitrary restrictions on freedom of movement, access to health and other resources
indispensable for survival for the Rohingya;
- Restore electricity and telecommunications to Rakhine State;
- Implement policy and legislative changes as part of concrete measures it must take to comply,
including the restoration of full citizenship to the Rohingya as a vital first step;
- Allow access to the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar to enquire into the
acts that are the subject of this case.
To the UN General Assembly, UN Human Rights Council, other UN bodies, human rights
mandate-holders and mechanisms:
• Make concerted efforts to consistently refer to the ICJ’s legally binding provisional measures order
in public statements about the Rohingya, including urging all parties to the conflict in Rakhine
State to fully comply with the order to protect the Rohingya from further harm.
• Robustly engage with the Arakan Army to demand an immediate end to all human rights violations
against Rohingya in Rakhine State, including forced displacement, land-grabbing, denial of the
right to return, and policies of persecution targeting the Rohingya in areas under their control.
222 BROUK references ICJ11-OAC-AA-BTD-FR1, ICJ11-OAC-AA-BTD-FR2.
223 BROUK reference ICJ11-OAC-AA-MDW-MT2.
224 BROUK reference ICJ11-OAC-AA-MDW-MT1.
225 BROUK references ICJ11-PM2c-FS-MDW-1a-5.
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