24 Bangladesh, Burma and the Rohingya crisis 47. Rights and aid groups have reported that the Burmese Government have dramatically increased restrictions on humanitarian assistance to some internally displaced people in Burma. They claim that the government has virtually denied all access for the United Nations and other international humanitarian groups. David Baulk, Fortify Rights, and Hkanhpa Tu Sadan, Kachin Relief Fund both described features of how humanitarian aid was restricted by administrative regimes of permissions and paperwork.73 DFID funding 48. One of DFID’s main aims is: to provide aid to those in conflict. DFID are funding programmes in areas of current conflict such as Kachin and Shan state. However, it has been stopping and reducing funding to organisations such as The Border Consortium helping victims of previous conflict when it is still not safe for people to return and where there is still need. Kachin Relief Fund claim that: Since many armed organizations signed the NCA peace agreement, the international donors’ attitude gradually became a demand to sign the fake peace accord or be cut off from aid. DFID should understand that the Kachin revolution started because of inequality and injustice against the Kachin population, not because of hunger. The “peace or no aid” approach will not work in the Kachin case. This means that the demand to sign the fake peace accord will prolong conflict in a place where aid should be viewed purely as assistance given on humanitarian grounds, not used as a political tool.74 73 74 Q167 Kachin Relief Fund (DBB021)