Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of reports that the government of Myanmar is building military bases on the ruins of Rohingya villages; and whether they have made representations about such action to the government of Myanmar.

I am deeply concerned by these Amnesty International reports. The Government believes them to be credible evidence of the Burmese military taking action that creates further obstacles to the return of Rohingya refugees to their homes in Rakhine. The British Ambassador raised the UK’s concerns about this action in his meeting with the Burmese Minister of Social Welfare on 22 March.