A crew from Britain's Channel 4 News gains access to resettlement camps set-up for around 60,000 members of the Muslim minority group months after deadly clashes with local Buddhists forced them from their homes.
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Rohingyas from Myanmar sit on a jetty by the river Naf after being arrested by Border Guards of Bangladesh in Teknaf on June 18.
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Boats carrying Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, trying to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, are intercepted by Bangladeshi Coast Guard officials in Teknaf on June 18.
Muslim Rohingyas continue to flee across the Naf river in boats to Bangladesh attempting to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar's Rakhine region only to be turned away by Bangladeshi border guards.
Reuters reports, the violence, which displaced 30,000 people and killed 50 in Myanmar, also known as Burma, flared last month with a rampage of rock-hurling, arson and machete attacks, after the gang rape and murder of a Buddhist woman that was blamed on Muslims.
Bangladesh is coming under increasing international pressure to open its border to Rohingya, but has so far refused to do so.
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A Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar, who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, looks on while kept under watch by Bangladeshi security officials after disembarking from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 18.
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Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence in Myanmar, look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 13, 2012. Bangladeshi guards have turned back 16 boats carrying more than 660 Rohingya people, most of them women and children, since June 11.
Hundreds of Muslim Rohingyas have tried to flee in rickety boats to Bangladesh after days of sectarian violence in the Myanmar town of Sittwe, Reuters reports, but Bangladesh's foreign minister says the country will not take them in.
Muslims flee burning homes in Sittwe
Major Shafiqur Rahman of the Bangladesh Border Guard told Reuters by phone that 110 Rohingyas in three boats had landed in Teknaf on the southern tip of the Bangladesh mainland in the early hours of Wednesday. The two countries are separated in the area by a river that flows into the Bay of Bengal.
Fighting breaks out between Muslim and Buddhist groups
"They landed on our beach defying objections by the coastguard. We have detained them all, mostly women and children, and will push back later today," he said. Read the full story.
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Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are seen on a boat while they try to get into Bangladesh, as members of the Border Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) try to push them back out in Teknaf on June 13, 2012. The UN Refugee Office (UNHCR) has called on Bangladesh to keep its borders open given the rapid escalation of violence in the northern Rakhine State of Myanmar, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters on Tuesday.
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Rohingya Muslims look on from an intercepted boat in Teknaf on June 13, 2012.
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