Influx of the Rohingyas, an ethnic Muslim minority from Myanmar, continues with nearly 5,00,000 said to be waiting for an opportunity to enter Bangladesh. Rohingyas, who recently crossed the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar’s Rakhine state to escape an incessant brutal campaign of violence against them, claimed that others who are still living there are being made to survive as ‘slaves.’

More than 700,000 have fled to Bangladesh since an August 2017 military crackdown in the Rakhine state. Members of this grossly persecuted community, as defined by the United Nations, who are still living on Myanmar soil, are waiting for the right window to escape.

Refugee camp leaders of the community have put the number to nearly 5,00,000.

They say that people are still escaping from Myanmar and crossing the border into Bangladesh every day.

Most of them came to Bangladeshi after crossing the Naf river while a few hundred came using routes through jungles in the Borders that separate the two countries, they added.

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