"The lands that IDPs have left behind is not vacant, fallow or virgin land. Before the fighting happened in 2011, our ancestors were the original occupant and had worked on those lands using our own customary practices." - A statement by Kachin and Shan IDPs

“Sexual violence involved hundreds of soldiers and occurred across the length of Maungdaw and northern Buthidaung. Such scale and breadth of incidence provides strong evidence that rape was systematically planned and used as a weapon against the Rohingya population.” - A report by the Kaladan Press Network

“ASEAN must not consider the option of voluntary return without addressing the root causes of the displacement and entrenched discrimination of the Rohingya.” - A statement by civil society organizations

“While the continuing increase in the number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) indicates a need for increased support from humanitarian aid organizations, the Myanmar military has instead demonstrated that civilian aid workers can be targeted and detained for carrying out their invaluable work.”

“Shutting down the IDP camps or planning to repatriate the refugees from Bangladesh without restoring the Rohingya’s rights to full citizenship, freedom of movement, education, health and other fundamental rights further segregates the Rohingya community in their own country into an apartheid-like condition,” - Razia Sultana, Rohingya Women’s Welfare Society