A/HRC/39/CRP.2 dehumanization and hate campaigns and for wrong perceptions to be engrained in the minds of each community. Displacement camps and sites 517. The displacement camps and sites established after the 2012 violence 1123 are effectively places of deprivation of liberty. They are cordoned off from the outside world, with Rohingya and Kaman unable to move outside freely. 1124 In most cases, access is strictly controlled by checkpoints set up by the Myanmar Police Force. Moreover, many camps are surrounded by barbed wire fencing. There are further police checkpoints and military posts in the camp area, further limiting freedom of movement. A large military base is located near the Sittwe camps, where the majority of displaced people are accommodated. According to credible reports, even some local staff members of international organizations have not been able to leave the camps for the last few years.1125 518. Given the severe restrictions on freedom of movement imposed on the camp population, some humanitarian actors and analysts have referred to the camps as “internment camps”:1126 These camps should be viewed as internment camps as the people there are not seeking refuge (at the heart of the definition of a camp for internally displaced people). Rather, they are “locked up”. To get into the camp you have to pass through a series of barbed wire fences, then an army checkpoint, and then a police checkpoint.1127 After 2012, the situation in central Rakhine changed with the establishment of the camps, and the unresolved question of whether these should be considered displaced people, or people forcibly transferred into detention centres.1128 Image from 2018 showing the guarded entrance to the Sittwe displacement camps and the barbed wires all around 519. In 2015, the Government denied the existence of restrictions on the freedom of movement of the displaced population in central Rakhine. In a response to a report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, the Government stated: 1123 1124 1125 1126 1127 1128 See this chapter, section C.1: Emblematic incidents. Danish Refugee Council, European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, CCCM Cluster, Joint IDP Profiling Service, Sittwe Camp Profiling report (June 2017), p. 12. DM-004, DM-005, V-047. QM-002, QM-005, V-337. QM-005. QM-002. 123