Burma Human Rights Network’s report: “We also have dreams” violence against the Buddhist people¹³. We cannot trust that they won’t torture people anymore. Now, the democracy has been hijacked by them (the Burmese army) and they are planning for a military government. This should also be stopped. Our country should be democratic for us. Our lands and properties should return to us. If these are done, we would return there. Otherwise, we wouldn’t return. There is one more thing for not returning to Myanmar. We are tortured more here. We should be able to stay here and be as happy as we were before we arrived here. The Bangladesh government planned to torture us like this through other people. We shouldn’t be in this difficult situation if we are kept the way we were before. We fled here because we were facing violence in Myanmar. If we also face violence here, all we can do is commit suicide.” A 24-year-old man told BHRN,” I am not so knowledgeable that I can suggest to the world on how to work on return. But after staying here for over three years, I have to say that the process and attempts to get us back to our country are not as effective as they should be. I think the world should pay more attention to our case. The world should create a fact-finding team of experts and implement them to find out the facts behind the genocide and violence against us in Myanmar. They should take steps based on what they find. The world should put more pressure on the Myanmar government. We know there have been barriers keeping our repatriation from taking place, such as the COVID and the military coup. The world should get control over the situation, and work actively on our case. We are sure the Myanmar government is trying hard to hinder our return but it has to abide by international law. To do this, the international community knows best what they should do.” Every refugee BHRN spoke with said they wanted to go back to Burma. Some explained what it would take for them to feel safe to go back while others said they would go back now if it was possible. Many of those interviewed also commented on how they felt the process to get them back home had not been pursued strongly enough by the international community and how the military coup in the country might make this worse. Despite the atrocities committed in Burma against them, Rohingya refugees still see it as a place of hope and a home worth returning to. 13 - A reference to conflict between Burmese military and the Arakan Army that has seen several serious human rights violations against ethnic Rakhine people. www.bhrn.org.uk 47