The aid organisation Medecins San Frontieres has said that ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are suffering an increasingly violent crackdown in Bangladesh. An MSF report released on Thursday said the stateless group are being driven from their homes in the Cox's Bazaar district of Bangladesh, by local authorities and residents. The report also accused the country's military of trying to forcibly repatriate some Rohingya back to Myanmar. Thousands of Rohingya are now seeking refuge at a makeshift camp at Kutu-palong, MSF said. The camp has grown by 6,000 people since October, and doctors say a humanitarian crisis is imminent. About 220,000 Rohingya live in Bangladesh.
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