The UN estimates that, in just over one week, more than 70,000 Rohingya have fled escalating violence in Myanmar. More than 370,000 people have fled to Bangladesh in recent weeks, with more trapped on the border, amid reports of the burning of villages and extrajudicial killings.

The Rohingya are a stateless Muslim minority group in Myanmar. The estimated 1 million Rohingya living in Myanmar have been subjected to systematic persecution and grave human rights abuses by authorities for decades. Escalating violence in September 2017 has now forced an additional 150,000 to flee to Bangladesh.

Conditions in refugee camps are as basic as they come. Testimonies of those sheltering in overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps are harrowing.

"They are beating us, shooting at us and hacking our people to death."

"Many people were killed. Many women were raped and killed."

One woman said the military came to her village last Friday and killed five people including her son. "They were tortured to death. Our houses were set on fire. We lost everything."

There have been reports of Soldiers and civilians in Burma burning down Rohingya villages, beheading, torturing and murdering men, women and children. They're attempting to cover up the massacre of the country's Rohingya Muslim population by gathering their bodies and burning them. Around 400 people are estimated to have been killed this week with the number rising every day.

Despite the election of a nominally-civilian government in November 2015, the new Myanmar Government has not shifted its policies of persecution of the Rohingya. Over 100,000 live in internally displaced persons camps with no freedom of movement or access to food, water, sanitation, healthcare and education. A report released by the International State Crime Initiative at the Queen Mary University of London has concluded that the Rohingya "face the final
stages of genocide".

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