The junta has consistently blocked humanitarian assistance to Pauktaw township since the AA claimed control of the area on 24 January 2024.124 Earlier this year, Rohingya IDPs told BROUK that they had not received any food rations or any form of assistance since February 2024.125 The Reuters investigative report also highlighted that the regime had prevented the delivery of food and medicine to severely malnourished children in an area gripped by cholera, which BROUK believes to be the camps in Pauktaw where Rohingya are detained. 126 BROUK’s last briefing documented outbreaks of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in the Pauktaw camps in April, May, July, September and October 2024. BROUK was able to verify the deaths of 31 Rohingya but also received credible reports of an additional 56 deaths, making a total of 94 in 2024.127 The majority of deaths were among children under five. Speaking to RFA’s Burmese language service in January this year, a Rohingya IDP reported, “The primary necessity is rice. Currently, people in the camp are starving. Due to insufficient rice for cooking, they rely on rice soup [just boiled rice water]. It has been nearly a year since we received support from international organizations.”128 In May, BROUK received information from one of the Pauktaw camps. In this camp alone, 10 more children died during an outbreak of diarrhoea in December 2024. So far this year, 25 adults are reported to have died from starvation, and a further seven died due to lack of medical care for other chronic conditions.129 These deaths were entirely preventable. Rohingya IDPs in Pauktaw are also extremely vulnerable. In March, BROUK documented the arrests of 23 Rohingya IDPs from Pauktaw by the Myanmar Navy near Sittwe. They had paid for travel permits from the AA to travel through AA-controlled areas to Kyauktaw to buy provisions for their camp. On their return, they had to make a detour to avoid the junta’s airstrikes and were arrested by the navy. They are reportedly under investigation for alleged support of the Arakan Army and are at grave risk of being tortured in junta custody.130 Kyauktaw township Although some goods are being imported to Kyauktaw township from the India-Myanmar border via the Kaladan river, the food security situation in the area is still very challenging, especially for impoverished Rohingya communities. Unfortunately, BROUK was unable to collect data from Nidin IDP camp in Kyauktaw township. An estimated 45 percent of Rohingya villagers in the Kyauktaw area try to get work as daily labourers. A quarter of Rohingya villagers are dependent on remittances from family members abroad, which are very difficult to receive because of the telecommunications blackouts. A small minority of Rohingya work as farmers or fishermen. Rohingya earn very little and cannot meet the rising costs of basic commodities.131 As a result, most Rohingya families in Kyauktaw township are reported to be eating rice just twice a day. The poorest families have resorted to feeding their young children rice soup [boiled rice water] when they don’t have enough rice for all the family. Volunteer community health workers conducted MUAC screening of children in one Rohingya village tract in February and found 46 cases of severe 124 Frontier Myanmar, ‘Arakan Army claims control of port town in Rakhine State’ (25 January 2024) available at <https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/arakan-army-claims-control-of-port-town-in-rakhine-state/> accessed 2 June 2025. 125 BROUK, ‘The Genocide Never Stopped’ (23 January 2025) 21. 126 Reuters, (16 December 2024) op. cit. 127 Verification involves collecting the biodata of the deceased, including name, sex, age, and date and cause of death. 128 English-language translation published by Rohingya activist Nay San Lwin on X. See < https://x.com/nslwin/status/1875163417629122971> accessed 1 June 2025. 129 BROUK reference ICJ11-PM2c-PKT-3. 130 BROUK reference ICJ11-PM2c-PKT-2. 131 BROUK reference ICJ11-PM2c-KTW-1. 23