Mark Dummett of BBC wrote:
They are Muslims
, and of the Rohingya minority.
In total as many as 200,000 have settled in Bangladesh, to escape persecution, over the past 20 years. They have been keenly following events in their home country, hoping that military rule will crumble, and that they can soon restart their lives.
They are unwelcome guests here, so they do not receive any support from the Bangladeshi government.
They get barely enough food to eat from scavenging in the forest, begging, prostitution or doing the most menial of work in the nearest town.
During the rainy season and when cyclones strike the area, everyone suffers.
"When the sun shines, we get burnt. When it rains, we all get wet. There is not even a spare bit of land for us to sit down, and our houses are so cramped," said Toyaba Haq, a mother of seven.
If those Muslim refugees were back in Burma
:
"The government is torturing the Muslim community," said Dudu Miah, a health care worker. "It steals our lands to build military camps, it takes our men for forced labour, it refuses us education."
"We need to get permission to marry or even have children," he said.