Myanmar must take a comprehensive approach to addressing statelessness in the country, by ensuring everyone’s right to acquire and retain their nationality, on the basis of non-discriminatory and non-arbitrary criteria that adheres to international norms. This approach must include the Rohingya who have been arbitrarily deprived of their nationality, as well as other groups. The risks of genocide related to ID systems should be factored into the design and implementation of Myanmar’s digital system. The early warning systems developed by genocide prevention experts, should inform this including the potential for ID systems to stigmatise and identify members of protected groups for persecution, and the potential for citizenship and identification frameworks to deny fundamental human rights to these groups. 28