Last Tuesday, when we went to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border area to cover news of Rohingya refugees in Ghumdum of Ukhia, we came across a small border bazaar (local market) full of cattle. What amazed us were the price tags of the cows -- most of them were being sold at Tk 10,000 to Tk 15,000.

More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar, mostly minority Rohingya Muslims -- more than twice the government's total -- a senior United Nations representative has told AFP, urging Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out.

Amid a dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state, UNHCR calls for urgent action to address the root causes of the recent surge in violence, so that people are no longer compelled to flee and can eventually return home in safety and dignity.

Buddhist community in Bangladesh calls upon the Myanmar government to stop ongoing atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state.

Ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing security forces in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have described killings, shelling, and arson in their villages that have all the hallmarks of a campaign of “ethnic cleansing,” Human Rights Watch says.

In yet another show of solidarity with Myanmar, India has refused to be a part of a declaration adopted at an international parliamentary forum conference in Indonesia as it carried "inappropriate" reference to violence in Rakhine state from where 1,64,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh.

Five Rohingya villagers whose distraught relatives say they were shot dead by the Myanmar military have been buried in Bangladesh at a mass funeral attended by hundreds of people after their bodies were carried across the border.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday her government was doing its best to protect everyone in the strife-torn state of Rakhine, as the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh leapt by 18,000 in one day, to 164,000.

Visiting Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan has affirmed that the government of Turkey will stand beside the Rohingyas, who have fled to Bangladesh in the face of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar's Rakhine.

Dhaka asks Myanmar to de-escalate the ongoing violence in Rakhine state to stop the ongoing influx of Rohingyas into Bangladesh. The call comes when Charge’d Affairs of Myanmar Embassy in Dhaka, responding to a summons, meets director general (Southeast Asia Wing) of foreign ministry in Dhaka.

The UN Migration Agency, IOM, in Bangladesh has appealed for an immediate fund of US$ 18 million for humanitarian assistance as tens of thousands of Rohingya continue to stream into Bangladesh since August 25.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) requests the government to give shelter to the Rohingyas fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

At least 10 bodies of Rohingya refugees, who were fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, are recovered after a boat capsized in Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Myanmar has been laying landmines across a section of its border with Bangladesh for the past three days, said two government sources in Dhaka, adding that the purpose may have been to prevent the return of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence.

Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi blames "terrorists" for "a huge iceberg of misinformation" on the violence in Rakhine state but makes no mention of the nearly 125,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled over the border to Bangladesh since August 25.

Urging on all sides to deescalate tensions, the European Commission says that it is committed to putting in all efforts to restore aid delivery in Rakhine state of Myanmar.

Amnesty International says the Myanmar authorities' restrictions on international aid in Rakhine state is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific abuses from a disproportionate military campaign.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi expresses her country's readiness to help Bangladesh in easing burden on it over Rohingya issue.

Condemning the atrocities committed against the Rohingya community, Maldives today ceased trade ties with Myanmar.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has come under pressure from countries with large Muslim populations including Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan to stop violence against Rohingya Muslims after nearly 125,000 of them fled to Bangladesh.