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Bangladesh pushes back thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar violence

Thousands of people have fled their homes following two days of crisis in the state of Rakhine in Myanmar. 
Thousands of people have fled their homes following two days of crisis in the state of Rakhine in Myanmar. Members of the Muslim Rohingya minority escaped to the border with Bangladesh, but Bangladeshi border guards are turning them back.The impoverished western state of Rakhine neighbouring Bangladesh has become a crucible of religious hatred focused on the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority, who are reviled and perceived as illegal immigrants in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. (Photo | AFP)
Thousands of people have fled their homes following two days of crisis in the state of Rakhine in Myanmar. Members of the Muslim Rohingya minority escaped to the border with Bangladesh, but Bangladeshi border guards are turning them back.The impoverished western state of Rakhine neighbouring Bangladesh has become a crucible of religious hatred focused on the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority, who are reviled and perceived as illegal immigrants in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. (Photo | AFP)
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The ethnic Rohingya people fleeing from a conflict area at the Yathae Taung township in Rakhine State in Myanmar is seen in the picture. (Photo | AFP)
The ethnic Rohingya people fleeing from a conflict area at the Yathae Taung township in Rakhine State in Myanmar is seen in the picture. (Photo | AFP)
Bangladeshi border guard personnel gesture to Rohingya who are stuck in 'no man's land' as they tell them not to cross over to the Bangladesh side of the border. (Photo | AP)
Bangladeshi border guard personnel gesture to Rohingya who are stuck in 'no man's land' as they tell them not to cross over to the Bangladesh side of the border. (Photo | AP)
A group of Muslim Rohingyas in Ghumdhum, Cox's Bazar weep as Bangladesh border guards (not pictured) order them to leave their makeshift camp and force them out of the country on August 28, 2017. Since 2012, more than 1,000 Rohingya have been killed, some 320,000 live in squalid camps in Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh, and thousands have embarked on perilous sea voyages to other Southeast Asian countries, according to estimates by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. (Photo | AP)
A group of Muslim Rohingyas in Ghumdhum, Cox's Bazar weep as Bangladesh border guards (not pictured) order them to leave their makeshift camp and force them out of the country on August 28, 2017. Since 2012, more than 1,000 Rohingya have been killed, some 320,000 live in squalid camps in Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh, and thousands have embarked on perilous sea voyages to other Southeast Asian countries, according to estimates by the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. (Photo | AP)
Rohingya women and children eat food offered by local Bangladeshi villagers at a makeshift shelter at Ghumdhum, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (Photo | AP)
Rohingya women and children eat food offered by local Bangladeshi villagers at a makeshift shelter at Ghumdhum, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (Photo | AP)
A Rohingya woman and children look at the camera as they sit at a makeshift shelter. Several hundred Rohingya trying to flee Myanmar got stuck in a 'no man's land' at the boarder. (Photo | AP)
A Rohingya woman and children look at the camera as they sit at a makeshift shelter. Several hundred Rohingya trying to flee Myanmar got stuck in a 'no man's land' at the boarder. (Photo | AP)
Rohingya children who are stuck in 'no man's land' cross a canal to collect drinking water from the Bangladesh side of the border. (Photo | AP)
Rohingya children who are stuck in 'no man's land' cross a canal to collect drinking water from the Bangladesh side of the border. (Photo | AP)
Bangladeshi border guard personnel keep watch over Rohingya who are stuck in 'no man's land' as they stop them from crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border at Ghumdhum, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.(Photo | AP)
Bangladeshi border guard personnel keep watch over Rohingya who are stuck in 'no man's land' as they stop them from crossing over to the Bangladesh side of the border at Ghumdhum, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.(Photo | AP)
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