It's true that some of the highest and most severe levels of internal displacement that we've recorded recently have taken place in some of the most conflict-ridden countries, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which re-erupted into conflict back in 2016 and into 2017, and that conflict is still continuing today. Since the beginning of this year we've also looked at a huge spike in conflict and internal displacement in Ethiopia, so it's true that these large-scale violent crises are driving some of the highest levels of displacement.
When it comes to Myanmar, the crisis in Myanmar has been predominantly a refugee crisis. We've had many difficulties in determining the extent to which people have been and are still trapped internally, as opposed to the extent to which they were displaced first, and for how long, before they were then compelled to leave the country.
Most of the reports we received from Myanmar established relatively clearly that the movement was very soon a cross-border movement and became very quickly a refugee crisis. A number of IDPs have been living in very protracted situations, in some cases for decades, in pockets of insecurity that remain across Myanmar, but a large part of the crisis there has been mostly a refugee crisis.
The situation there has been very different from the situation in Syria, which for the first few years of the civil war was clearly an internal displacement crisis and then tipped into a cross-border movement and a refugee movement only in 2015. You really had both in Syria, and it's still very much the case today. You have a huge caseload of Syrian refugees, but you have an equally large, if not larger, IDP caseload in Syria. I would qualify Myanmar as a very different case.