Using ladders, members of Myanmar security forces tried to cross a barbed-wire fence in the no man’s land at 7:40pm, but they retreated as the aggrieved Rohingya began hurling brickbats. With tension mounting at Tambru, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel on the Bangladesh side have been ordered to stay on high alert,” BGB Cox’s Bazar Ad-hoc Region Director (operation), Lt Col Khalid Hasan, said. “Our intelligence sources said Myanmar’s border police asked the Rohingya living in the no man’s land to move away. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said there was “no reason” behind such military build-ups and claimed the Myanmar army has “unnecessarily heightened” their presence in Tambru. Accusing the Myanmar military of committing genocide, the Nobel laureates also sought the international community’s support to take the matter to the International Criminal Court.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 01, 2018 14:15 UTC