“For decades we faced a systematic genocide in Myanmar. They took our citizenship. They took our land. They destroyed our mosques. No travel, no higher education, no healthcare, no jobs.” - Mr. Muhib Ullah of the Arakan Rohingya Society for Peace and Human Rights

“We need the world to act as a united community to implement target sanctions against the military and to have a body outside Burma to [deliver] justice and to hold generals accountable for these extreme human right violations.” - Naw K’nyaw Paw, General Secretary of the Karen Women’s Organization

“IDPs who are displaced because of the civil war are people whose rights are being violated, and we fully intend to go back to our original lands once the country is in peace.” - IDPs from Kachin and Shan States

“I witnessed with my own eyes that Army soldiers were the only armed group shooting at the homes.” - U Moe Kaung, the village administrator

“The current constitution is not democratic, and Myanmar cannot be considered a democracy without it being amended.” - The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar