BBCNEWS BBC News October 19, 2017
Where theyd faced a military offensive after claims that militants were guilty of attacking police checkpoints. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have now fled across the border. 15,000 of them have been stranded for three days with limited food and water. From the border, clive myrie sent this report. In the distance in myanmar, where rohingya villages have burned in recent weeks, and the people have been driven out, there is another fire. Its ethnic cleansing, says the un. And the purged are fleeing for their lives into neighbouring bangladesh. Translation in my village, many were killed. B...