Source: Author thematic analysis of Roots of Arakan archive (2025-2026). Inductive coding with inter-rater reliability verification. Three patterns in the archive data are analytically significant. First, the near-universal (91%) presence of return and justice aspirations directly contradicts narratives that Rohingya refugees may prefer permanent resettlement. Second, 72% of testimonies documenting structural violence before 2017 confirms the genocide was the culmination of decades of engineered exclusion, not a sudden rupture. Third, the 45% engaging Rohingya-Rakhine relations provides empirical grounding for the intercommunal dialogue work that Roots of Arakan facilitates. "I am 82 years old. I remember Thursday markets, the Kaladan River, the call to prayer at dawn. My grandchildren were born in this camp. They have never seen Arakan. When I am gone, who will tell them? That is why I talk to these young people who record my memories. So my grandchildren will know who they are, where they come from, and that they have a right to go back. Not charity. A right." — Rohingya elder (female, 82), Roots of Arakan interview, Cox's Bazar, March 2026 6.3 Intercommunal Dialogue: Evidence from Rakhine Youth Partnership "I grew up being taught to fear the Rohingya. When I began working with Roots of Arakan and listened to Rohingya elders describe the same rivers and hills my grandparents described, I understood how much I had been lied to. The lie was designed to make what happened in 2017 feel necessary to people like me. 14