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The man came to Australia by a boat as an asylum seeker from Myanmar.

A family with a tiny baby living in a concrete pipe, and another family burying a 70-year-old woman who died just days after they'd carried her all the way from Myanmar.

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Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday that Myanmar drones and helicopters flew into Bangladeshi airspace.

Award-winning British photojournalist Dan Kitwood has spent several days in Bangladesh covering the Rohingya refugee crisis. His photos show the scale of the exodus as wave after wave of desperate people arrive by land, river and sea.

Crisis has drawn global condemnation, with UN officials demanding Myanmar halt "campaign of ethnic cleansing".

The UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting on the Rohingya crisis at the behest of Britain and Sweden.

Myanmar's de-facto leader is accused of turning a blind eye to widespread atrocities against the minority.

"We will not tolerate injustice," said Sheikh Hasina.

The attack was allegedly in response to the deepening crisis in the restive western Myanmar state of Rakhine.

Buddhist leader empathises as 270,000 Rohingya flee to Bangladesh after alleged persecution.

Thousands have fled from Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh.

Exodus from Myanmar's northern Rakhine state began 25 August after Rohingya insurgents attacked police posts.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of possible ethnic cleansing and a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

UNHCR pleads for assistance, saying it needed more land to be made available so it could set up new camps

The Rohingya are effectively stateless. Neither Bangladesh nor Myanmar recognises them as citizens. They live in apartheid-like conditions.

The victims are Muslim, and the persecutors are Buddhist - which doesn't neatly fit our Western world-view.

"The world is waiting and the Rohingya Muslims are waiting," the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize said.

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Bangladeshi officials have recovered bodies of 20 Rohingya women and children whose boat capsized as they fled violence.

"Myanmar doesn't distinguish between the terrorists and civilians. They are hunting all the Rohingya."

Police said Rohingya Muslims were behind the attacks that targeted 24 police post and an army base.

In Kyar Gaung Taung village, the journalists insisted on speaking to villagers away from security forces, and allegations of abuses by troops emerged almost immediately.

Food insecurity increased following 'security incidents and ensuing violence in late 2016' WFP said.

Flight said to be carrying military families vanishes from radar over Andaman Sea.

The UN says the Rohingya are one of the most persecuted groups in the world. Neither Bangladesh nor Myanmar recognises them as citizens.

Unicef calls on all parties to allow humanitarian assistance to reach children in conflict-affected areas.

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The exact cause of the crash is yet to be known, but the boat was reportedly unlit when it collided with a cargo.

Aung San Suu Kyi has been widely condemned for her silence on the persecution.