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The statement claims Myanmar is accused of **detaining over one million Rohingya in the Rakhine region**. However, multiple credible sources indicate that the **total** Rohingya population in Myanmar’s Rakhine State is **well under one million**, making it impossible for “over one million” Rohingya to be detained in that region: - UNHCR (via UN Myanmar) reports **~633k Rohingya in Rakhine State** (and gives figures for those in displacement camps). This directly contradicts the “over one million” figure for Rakhine. - Human Rights Watch similarly reports **about 630,000** Rohingya remain in Rakhine State, including **about 150,000** held in “open-air detention camps.” This supports the view that detention/camp confinement exists, but at a scale far smaller than “over one million.” - UN reporting also notes that **nearly one million** Rohingya refugees live in camps in **Bangladesh**—which is likely the order-of-magnitude the post conflates with detention in Rakhine. Given these population figures, the specific numeric claim “detaining over one million Rohingya in this region” is not consistent with the best-available public estimates from UNHCR and major human-rights reporting.