; however, it is important that people fleeing violence in Burma are not deported or turned back. (15) On October 23, 2017, the Department of State said, We express our gravest concern with recent events in Rakhine State and the violent, traumatic abuses Rohingya and other communities have endured. It is imperative that any individuals or entities responsible for atrocities, including non-state actors and vigilantes, be held accountable. . (16) At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on October 24, 2017, the Department of State indicated that refugees continue to cross into Bangladesh, and we continue to receive credible reports of sporadic violence in northern Rakhine State . (17) Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have reported and documented a campaign of violence perpetuated by the security forces of Burma, which have indiscriminately fired on and killed civilians, raped women and girls, and arbitrarily arrested Rohingya men without any information about their whereabouts or charges which may amount to crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing . Satellite images reveal that, out of the approximately 470 villages in northern Rakhine State, nearly 300 were partially or completely destroyed by fire since August 25, 2017, most of them completely or partially populated with Rohingya Muslims. (18) The Government of Burma has continued to block access to northern Rakhine State by United Nations and other humanitarian groups. For much of the last three months, hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in Rakhine State who needed humanitarian aid, both Rohingya, Rakhine, and other groups and including children with acute malnutrition, were being blocked from receiving such aid, and aid groups now expect that levels of malnutrition and even starvation have dramatically increased. (19) In response to previous violence between the Burmese military and the ethnic Rohingya people in 2016, Aung San Suu Kyi established the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State headed by former United Nations