There is genocide going on there': Rohingya huddle on Bangladesh border

hey have come in their thousands, crossing hills and rivers, marshes and rice paddies for the chance to cross into Bangladesh and escape the mass killings they say are being perpetrated against their people.
The UN estimates that, in just one week, almost 50,000 Rohingya -- a stateless, ethnic Muslim minority who largely inhabit Myanmar's western Rakhine state -- have fled escalating violence.
Refugees say, the Myanmar army attacked them. The government blames "terrorists" for initiating the violence.
Around 27,000 refugees have crossed into Bangladesh since last Friday, and a further 20,000 remain stuck in no-man's land between the two East Asian nations.

On Thursday, the bodies of 20 Rohingya were pulled out of the Naf River along the border of Myanmar and Bangladesh. Twelve of the dead were children.
People gather around covered dead bodies of Rohingya children who died after a boat carrying Rohingya people capsized.
People gather around covered dead bodies of Rohingya children who died after a boat carrying Rohingya people capsized.
Beaten, shot at, hacked to death
The testimonies of Rohingya sheltering in overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps are harrowing.
"They are beating us, shooting at us and hacking our people to death," Hamida Begum, one refugee who has left everything behind in a desperate attempt to flee with at least their lives.
"Many people were killed. Many women were raped and killed. We are very poor. My husband is a day laborer," she said.

"We used to have two square meals a day. But we lost everything after the war started," she said, referring to the outbreak of violence last Friday when Rohingya militants staged co-ordinated attacks on border posts, killing 12 security officers.
In response, the military intensified "clearance operations," driving thousands of people from their homes.