freedom of movement for the Rohingya across Rakhine State.109 The UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar concluded, The 2012 and 2013 violence in Rakhine State was pre-planned and instigated…the Myanmar security forces were actively involved and complicit. They participated in acts of violence… [This] actively instigated violence between the ethnic Rakhine and the Rohingya, with the involvement of State institutions and other figures of authority, result[ed] in mass arrests of Rohingya, policies of segregation and the mass displacement and confinement of Rohingya into squalid and barb-wired “displacement” sites and camps in central Rakhine, where they have been arbitrarily detained.110 Rohingya in central Rakhine State have been subjected to indefinite arbitrary detention in camps for almost 13 years, in violation of international law.111 Although best understood as detention or internment camps, the 24 sites in Sittwe, Kyauktaw, Kyaukphyu, Myebon and Pauktaw townships112 are officially classified as temporary camps for IDPs. In previous briefings, BROUK has drawn on publicly available data published by humanitarian actors to analyse the conditions of life at the sites and the impact of the regime’s humanitarian access restrictions. However, the camp profiles for central Rakhine State no longer appear to be publicly available.113 The last publicly available data from September 2024 showed that there were almost 145,000 Rohingya in camps, of whom over 112,000 were in Sittwe township.114 Around 50 percent of Rohingya confined to camps are children; a generation of Rohingya who have only ever known the brutality of indefinite detention under squalid conditions. For the Rohingya in central Rakhine State now into their second decade of indefinite detention in the camps, the impact of WFP cutting off food rations due to funding shortfalls is truly devastating. Sittwe township According to information received by BROUK, the last time that all IDPs in the camps in Sittwe received food rations was the last week in February.115 IDPs did not receive any food aid in March or April. Cash assistance provided in March and April was reportedly only for nutritionally vulnerable IDPs, such as pregnant and lactating women, and those with disabilities. Beneficiaries received 45,000 MMK per month. According to a Rohingya woman interviewed by a local Rakhine media outlet, “The price of rice, oil, meat, fish, and vegetables has gone through the roof. These days, even 50,000 MMK isn’t enough to cover two meals a day. People are really 109 For a more detailed description, see BROUK, ‘Slow death’: ten years confined to camps for 130,000 Rohingya in Myanmar (22 May 2022). 110 UNFFMM, ‘Report of the detailed findings of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar’ (17 September 2018) UN Doc A/HRC/39/CRP.2 [747-748]. 111 ibid. 112 Out of these 24 sites, 19 are formal camps, 3 are integrated host communities, and 2 are officially closed camps where IDPs remain. In April 2017, the authorities announced that it would begin closing camps in response to the recommendations in an interim report from the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State led by the late Kofi Annan. Three camps (Kyein Ni Pyin in Pauktaw township, Nidin in Kyauktaw township, and Taung Paw in Myebon township) were officially declared ‘closed’ in 2018 and Kyauk Ta Lone camp in Kyaukpyu was officially ‘closed’ in May 2023 but its current status is unclear. As previously reported by BROUK, the ‘camp closure’ strategy is better understood as the permanent segregation and detention of Rohingya in flood-prone locations. 113 They were previously available here <https://sheltercluster.org/hub/rakhine>, accessed 30 May 2025. 114 CCCM Camp Profiles, Central Rakhine, Myanmar September 2024, on file with BROUK. 115 BROUK reference ICJ11-PM2c-SIT-1a-5. 21