MOKAMMEL SHUVO

A few hundred Rohingyas have been crossing the border into Bangladesh daily through the Naf river over the past few days, facing attacks by both the Myanmar military and Arakan Army rebels in Rakhine state.

The newly arrived Rohingyas have alleged indiscriminate murder, rape and arson attacks by both sides in recent days.

Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, the refugee, relief and repatriation commissioner, told The Daily Star the official stand of Bangladesh is not to allow any more Myanmar nationals to enter illegally.

However, 8,000 to 10,000 Rohingyas arrived in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps recently, he added.

He also said most of them came on August 4 and August 5 when the situation in Bangladesh was unstable during the mass uprising.

Rohingya community leaders, however, said as many as 30,000 Rohingyas have arrived in the last month.

Earlier on September 3, Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain told reporters that around 8,000 Rohingyas entered Bangladesh recently.

Around 1.2 million Rohingyas, most of whom fled The

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