"Mr. President, Members of the Security Council, Abdullah is a father of eight from Buthidaung, in the northern part of Myanmar?s Rakhine State. Fleeing to Bangladesh in September last year, he became a refugee for the third time. The first was in 1978, when he came to Bangladesh as a young boy, and the second in 1991. That time he remained for three years, and then returned to Myanmar as part of an organised voluntary repatriation operation, anxious to recover his home and his four acres of land. Back home, he and his family started to rebuild their lives. They had seven cows, and were able to make a living. But, he says, around two years after his return, ?hope started to fade away.? Forced labour, confiscation of crops and cattle, and relentless, incremental restrictions on their freedom of movement, their right to worship, and their access to livelihoods constrained their existence..."