Even though the refugee camps lack basic facilities and the refugee’s life is fraught with uncertainty, those Rohingyas who have managed to flee Myanmar have heaved sighs of relief as they have found a safe haven in Bangladesh. As they themselves put it, the uncertain life at the refugee camp is better than the inhuman torture
meted out by the Myanmarese elite force, which is why—after losing everything and at great peril to themselves—they have escaped to neighbouring Bangladesh.
At least eight villages, including mosques, have been torched by Myanmar’s military, police and Border Guard Police (BGP) personnel along with a section of the locals. The Rohingyas’ homes and possessions, including valuables, have been reduced to ashes, they complained.
Till Friday evening, a total of 3,500 people belonging to 1,500 families have taken shelter in the unregistered refugee camp of Kutubpalong over the past week.
There is a registered camp and an unregistered one at Ukhia in Cox’s Bazar district while there is a registered and an unregistered Rohingya refugee camp at Teknaf.
The unregistered Kutubpalong refugee camp of the Rohingyas is located within just 200 feet of the Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf highway. A single room in A-block now houses several people, ranging in age from one to 70.    
Thirty-year-old Nabi Hossain, from Poyakhali in Myanmar, took shelter with 12 of his family members in the 100-square-feet rooms on November 20. Currently 22 people were living in the rooms. He said, “Eight villages of our area were torched by the military. They looted all the valuables and the locals vandalised our mosque.”
With him has come Nur Hossain, his brother, who is currently undergoing treatment at Kutubpalong of Teknaf Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Hospital. The patient’s wife is 26-year-old Enam Bibi, who has a one-year-old baby. Enam Bibi alleged that the military forcibly took away her father and brother and tortured her husband in an inhuman manner.
Nur Hakim, 60, hailing from Naichang of Mongdo in Myanmar, took shelter in another room on the western side on November 23. He came via Totardwip of Whykong with his five family members.
He is happy as he has managed to flee Myanmar even though he has not been able to protect his three daughters from the clutches of the military.
Muktar Ali, 45, Nur Kader, 13, and Tasmin Ara, 35, came from Myanmar with bullet injuries. Teenager Nur Kader and two other camp inmates are undergoing treatment at hospitals in Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong respectively. Most of the injured are being treated at the local MSF hospital.
Several hundred members of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic community have fled to Bangladesh to save themselves. Bangladesh is dealing with the matter on humanitarian grounds. Jumbunna, Jalipara, Chhaliprang, Sarakogi, Borkogibi, Kheari para, Hathgucha para and Poyakhali villages were torched, alleged the Rohingyas who managed to flee Bangladesh.