Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in southeastern Bangladesh, told VOA.

Still, local people in the Bangladesh border town of Teknaf told VOA that a few hundred Rohingya have managed to sneak across the border.

The latest round of tension broke out in Rakhine, where most Rohingya live in Myanmar, after armed men attacked border guard posts and killed nine policemen on October 9.

Army accused of abuses

Blaming the attack on Rohingya militants, the Myanmar army locked down Rohingya villages. Since then, the army has been accused of human rights abuses against the Rohingya, including extrajudicial killings, rapes and arson.

During the crackdown the army used helicopter gunships, reportedly leaving dozens of Rohingya killed.

Different independent groups have put the death toll at 150 to 300, but there are no means to verify these claims.border for the fleeing Rohingya people on humanitarian ground,” Abrar said. He heads the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU) at the University of Dhaka.

“The international communities have been sluggish in initiating action to act on the issue involved of the Rohingya. In the absence of such global pressure on Myanmar the situation for the Rohingya in the country is worsening,” he said.

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