violence: reports revealed that on January 7, an APBn officer attempted to rape a 22-year-old Rohingya refugee woman under the supposed pretext of a “search operation.”69 Before his attack, the officer had allegedly stalked the woman for a year.70 What then magnifies the camp’s deteriorating security conditions is the sustained lack of any practical solution to them. Bangladesh’s camps received only half of the required amount of funding according to the 2023 Joint Response Plan; combined with such a shortage’s spillover effect, another massive funding shortfall will likely ensue in the upcoming year.71 Given the drastic cuts in the camps’ food rations and other related basic services in 2023, its donor-reliant status quo is also unlikely to provide means to readily adapt itself to ongoing and future funding shortages. Forcibly relocating the refugees to Bhasan Char – a distant, silt island whose habitability has yet to be formally determined – then becomes less tenable; the 32,560 Rohingya refugees who are confined there currently risk shortages in food and medicine, as well as other preventable threats to their lives.72 A gas cylinder leakage was reportedly the cause of the February 24 wave of mass fire in Bhasan Char, which severely injured several Rohingya refugees, and resulted in the death of a child.73 Despite such growing risks, the refugees remain prevented from accessing mechanisms for justice and redress that may help them to better protect themselves in the camps. Indeed, the camp’s infrastructure as a whole does not yield tools to remedy, let alone improve, it. Meanwhile, Myanmar’s rapidly exacerbating human rights and humanitarian catastrophe as it is cannot ensure the safe, voluntary, sustainable, and dignified return of Rohingya to their homes. Such an environment is contrary to the Burmese military’s so-called “pilot repatriation project,” which has ostensibly aimed to forcibly repatriate 1,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh since March 2023. As a project under the 2017 bilateral agreement between Myanmar and Bangladesh, it follows attempts that failed at least in part due to the persistent lack of conditions conducive to the repatriation that the Rohingya envision.74 It is 69 “Rohingya woman alleges sexual assault by APBn member,” Dhaka Tribune, January 11, 2024, https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/rohingya-crisis/336441/rohingya-woman-alleges-sexual-assault-by-apb n; Meenakshi Ganguly, “Bangladesh Police Abuses Rampant in Rohingya Camps: Sexual Assault Causes Family to Consider Fleeing Again,” Human Rights Watch, January 24, 2024, https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/24/bangladesh-police-abuses-rampant-rohingya-camps. 70 Ganguly, “Bangladesh Police Abuses Rampant in Rohingya Camps: Sexual Assault Causes Family to Consider Fleeing Again.” 71 “Bangladesh: Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis: Joint Response Plan 2023 funding update as of 31 December 2023,” Inter Sector Coordination Group, January 2024, https://rohingyaresponse.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023_12_31_JRP-2023_Funding-update_FTS.pdf. 72 “Bangladesh: Repression, Security Force Abuses Discredit Elections: Key International Partners Should Call for Independent Inquiry into Abuses,” Human Rights Watch, January 11, 2024, https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/11/bangladesh-repression-security-force-abuses-discredit-elections; “Joint Government of Bangladesh - UNHCR Population Factsheet as of December 2023,” Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, January 11, 2024, https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/106003. 73 “Bhashan Char Rohingya campfire: Minor boy succumbs to injuries at CMCH,” Dhaka Tribune, February 24, 2024, https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/nation/340227/9-rohingya-injured-in-bhasan-chargas-cylinder. 74 “Bangladesh and Myanmar conclude ‘Arrangement’ on Return of displaced persons from Rakhine State,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, November 23, 2017, http://www.mofa.gov.bd/media/bangladesh-and-myanmarconclude-%E2%80%98arrangement%E2%80%99-return -displaced-persons-rakhine-state-11; “UNHCR and UNDP agree on text of MoU in Myanmar to support the creation 16