Bangladesh, Burma and the Rohingya crisis 1 Contents Summary3 Burma3 The Rohingya crisis 4 Bangladesh4 1 2 Introduction 6 Previous reports 6 Assistance during the inquiry 6 Refusal of visas to visit Burma 7 Burma 8 Introduction8 DFID’s work in Burma pre-2012 8 DFID Burma post-2012 to now 10 UK policy following the Rohingya crisis 12 Burma’s “path to democracy” 14 Media freedom 14 Political Prisoners 15 Religious Freedom 16 Parliamentary democracy 16 The Peace Process 17 IDPs and refugees 23 DFID funding 24 Options for the future 29 Changes to the DFID programme 30 Which programmes could be withdrawn? 31 Support for civil society 37 ICC referral 38 Sanctions39 3 Rabat Plan of Action 40 The Rohingya refugees 42 Introduction42 First report and reply 42 Second report and reply 43 Recent developments 43 Conclusions44