Myanmar rebuffs a ceasefire declared by Muslim Rohingya insurgents to enable the delivery of aid to thousands of displaced people in the violence-racked state of Rakhine, declaring simply that it does not negotiate with terrorists.

BNP urges Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to visit different countries including India and China to garner their support to resolve the Rohingya crisis.

Hefajat-e Islam, a Chittagong-based Islamist group, threatens to besiege Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka on September 19 if the “genocide” of Rohingya people is not stopped by then.

The international community has to play a much stronger role otherwise, as someone has argued recently, “like other stateless and unrepresented Muslims, [the Rohingyas] are at risk of producing a persistent terrorist threat” that in the end would not only destabilise Myanmar but also its neighbours.

Bangladesh has lodged a “strong protest” with the Myanmar embassy in Dhaka as Myanmar helicopters violated Bangladesh’s airspace near Ukhia in Cox's Bazar where Rohingyas fleeing violence in Rakhine state took shelter.

Eight more Rohingya, including two children with bullet and burn injuries, are admitted to Chittagong Medical College and Hospital as they managed to cross the border into Bangladesh fleeing the wave of violence unleashed by the Myanmarese army.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appreciated Bangladesh's steps for providing assistance to Rohingya people and resolving the ongoing Rohingya crisis as he phoned his Bangladesh counterpart, President Abdul Hamid.

A few thousand Rohingya refugees entered Bangladesh yesterday slipping through the Rezu Aamtali border in Naikkhangchhari of Bandarban.