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Chaos Breaks and Border Camps

u.n: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who lambasted Myanmar for atrocities during a visit to border camps last week, left Dhaka to address the annual U.N. gathering in New York, according to Metro News. Refugee camps were already beyond capacity and new arrivals were staying in schools or huddling in makeshift settlements with no toilets along roadsides and in open fields. Bangladesh has been overwhelmed with more than 400,000 Rohingya who fled their homes in the last three weeks amid a crisis the U.N. describes as ethnic cleansing. On Sunday, police were checking vehicles to prevent Rohingya from spreading to nearby towns in an attempt to control the situation. As many private and social organizations are coming and distributing relief, sometimes chaos breaks out. There is an instruction from the prime minister that we must treat Rohingya Muslims maintaining human rights, said A.K.M. Iqbal Hossain, a police superintendent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.