I. Human Rights Violations and National Verification Cards [The] household list updating exercise has been underway in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships and there are reports that those absent in some cases have been struck off the list, posing concern for how this may affect eligibility for potential voluntary repatriation of refugees in the future, and the extent to which they could rely on government records to have their citizenship status determined should they wish to apply.193 Fortify Rights spoke with three Rohingya refugees who returned to Myanmar, at great personal risk, to be registered in the household survey. One 22-year-old Rohingya refugee told Fortify Rights: I went back to Myanmar once, to get on the annual family list. The counting took place in February 2018 . . . Now people can’t go back unless you are repatriated or you’re on the household list. You can go to jail if you are not on the list and go back. You’ll be labeled an illegal person.194 He went on to describe the poor treatment of Rohingya by the authorities during the registration exercises, saying: People are treated in awful ways during the family counting exercise. The soldiers make some women take off their head covers, and religious men have to take off their religious head covers . . .This is shameful and disrespectful. They make you hold a sign with a number on it. During the household counting they treat us like animals that need to be counted.195 Myanmar authorities also extort money from Rohingya in exchange for inclusion on household lists.196 193 UNHCR, Citizenship Verification Exercise in Rakhine State. 194 Fortify Rights interview with F.C., Cox’s Bazar District, Bangladesh June 16, 2019. 195 Ibid. 196 Ibid. 58