Exclusive - 'We will kill you all': Rohingya villagers in Myanmar beg for safe passage


A Rohingya refugee stands outside his temporary shelter at a makeshift camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 17, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - Thousands of Rohingya Muslims in violence-racked northwest Myanmar are pleading with authorities for safe passage from two remote villages that are cut off by hostile Buddhists and running short of food.

"We're terrified," Maung Maung, a Rohingya official at Ah Nauk Pyin village, told Reuters by telephone. "We'll starve soon and they're threatening to burn down our houses."

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