Trapped by landmines and a creek, Rohingya languish in no-man's land


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  • Wednesday, 13 Sep 2017

Rohingya refugees stand outside their temporary shelters at no man's land between Bangladesh-Myanmar border, as Myanmar security forces walk past a fence in Maungdaw, Myanmar September 9, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh Reuters) - Until late last month, Syed Karim grew rice and sugarcane on a strip of unclaimed land along the international border where Myanmar ends and Bangladesh begins.

On Aug. 25, the 26-year-old Rohingya Muslim man abandoned his home in a nearby Myanmar village and moved to the no-man's land, fleeing a crackdown by the military against his community in response to militant attacks.

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