Overview

• IIMM investigators say authorities systematically bulldozed villages, mosques, cemeteries and farmland after 2017, then built security facilities on the cleared land, including a base over Inn Din with new roads, compounds and helipads.
• The report cites witness testimony, geospatial imagery, videos and official records, and details how private companies provided machinery and labor under state contracts to clear sites and construct infrastructure.
• UN member states are meeting in New York on September 30 to tackle protection, funding and stalled repatriation plans for Rohingya refugees.
• UN Special Envoy Julie Bishop warned that escalating fighting in Rakhine presents an insurmountable barrier to safe, voluntary return, while Human Rights Watch and Amnesty urged against premature repatriation and reported abuses by the junta and the Arakan Army.
• Roughly 1.3 million Rohingya remain in Bangladesh camps facing aid cuts and insecurity, with Bangladesh warning of possible WFP ration reductions without new funding, and the IIMM cautioning that its open-source team lacks resources to continue beyond 2025.