fleeing atrocities in Burma [Myanmar] are deadly enough without adding landmines to the mix,” said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director, calling upon Myanmar to immediately stop the use of antipersonnel landmines and joining the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.

According to witness accounts, independent reporting, and photos and video recordings, Myanmarese soldiers have in recent weeks laid antipersonnel landmines at key crossing points on Burma's border with Bangladesh.

Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that Burmese military personnel also planted mines on roads inside northern Rakhine State prior to their attacks on predominantly Rohingya villages.

According to BGB officials, at least five people have been killed and 12 injured from landmine blasts.

The Landmine Monitor reported that Myanmar forces have consistently used antipersonnel mines in numerous locations along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border since 1999, butstop the violence and displacement, moving forward with such engagement will be difficult,” a National Security Council spokesperson told the magazine.

In another development, Saudi Arabia yesterday condemned the government of Myanmar's "policy of repression" against minority Rohingya Muslims.

"My country is gravely concerned and condemns the policy of repression and forced displacement carried out by the government of Myanmar against the Rohingya minority," Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

'SEPARATE CRISIS'

Pierre Peron, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Myanmar, said a separate crisis is unfolding on multiple fronts, reports Reuters.

"Many ongoing humanitarian activities that existed before August 25 have still not resumed," said Peron. In northern Rakhine, tens of thousands of people, most of them Rohingya,