Reuters reporters on the Bangladeshi side of the border, in Cox's Bazar's Palong Khali, saw several thousand people crossing from Myanmar's Rakhine State, filing along embankments between flooded fields and scrubby forest. About 519,000 Rohingyas have fled Myanmar since Aug 25, when attacks by Rohingya militants on security posts in Rakhine State sparked a ferocious military response. Aerial view of a burned Rohingya village near Maungdaw, north of Rakhine state, Myanmar Sept 27, 2017. People displaced by violence walk with their belongings, while moving to another village, in Maungdaw, Rakhine state, Myanmar, Sept 12, 2017. The European Union and the United States are considering targeted sanctions against Myanmar military leaders over the violence, officials familiar with the discussions say.

Source: bd News24 October 09, 2017 11:03 UTC