Fellow Nobel laureates blame Suu Kyi, Myanmar's military for Rohingya crisis

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Apart from visiting Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar, the Trump's aide is also scheduled to meet Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and its Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, the sources added.

"We have talked with concerned authorities of Myanmar (over the military buildup).They informed us the drill is being carried out as some Rohingyas of their country are staying at no mans land", he told newsmen at a separate BGB function near the northeastern port city of Chittagong.

The United Nations and human rights organisations have collected evidence of widespread abuses by the Myanmar military against the largely stateless Rohingya, including murder, rape and arson, prompting almost 700,000 to flee to neighboring Bangladesh, and have called the crackdown ethnic cleansing.

In recent weeks they have come under pressure from soldiers who have stepped up patrols along the border just metres away from the camp and broadcast messages using loud hailers ordering the Rohingya to leave. The laureates spoke at a news conference in Dhaka on Wednesday during their weeklong trip to Bangladesh to visit the camps where the Rohingya are living.

Bangladesh says it will not repatriate any Rohingya against their will, but has urged the global community to continue to pressure Myanmar to create conditions for a sustainable repatriation.

Tawakkol Karman from Yemen, Mairead Maguire from Northern Ireland, and Shirin Ebadi from Iran said after a visit to the squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh that they were exploring legal options to bring those responsible for the crisis to justice.

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The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has been put on high alert along Bangladesh-Myanmar border as Myanmar deployed additional forces with heavy arms.

She urged Suu Kyi to resign, saying otherwise she will "face prosecution".

Officials familiar with the situation at the scene said Myanmar mobilised extra security forces on the border ignoring a request by Bangladesh during the last months home minister level meeting in Dhaka to refrain from such actions.

But community leaders have said they won't go back unless their demands for citizenship and security guarantees are met.

Almost 700,000 have fled since the military backed by Buddhist mobs launched a brutal crackdown a year ago in the wake of militant attacks on police posts.

Most of the refugees are now living in camps in Bangladesh.

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