The issue is still cooking hot on the pan, admit it or not. Many said the flow of Rohingya refugee influx has eventually come to a complete halt. I wonder why would someone with a minimum sense of general knowledge say something like that without any independent research!

The Myanmar army started its recent-most blunder in the Rohingya villages on last week of October. That was when the people in Rakhine started to run (or re-run) for lives. Many tried crossing three-kilometre long width of the Naf river, only for a better chance of not dying (rather than living) with their families.

Bangladeshi authorities initially tried to deny that induction of the Rohingya influx. But alas! Too bad for them that I found this Rohingya boy - Mohammad Towhid - who fled the Rakhine and took refuge inside Bangladesh! I heard his heartbreaking story of losing his sister and how he left his mother, only to save his own life. And his revolting cry sounded like a boiling volcano which kept saying how he could save his family!

All media rushed to the southeastern part of Bangladesh. I, myself, went there. The influx was intensified. Hundreds of sorrowing news started to float around the ether, papers and photographs. I heard stories of gang rapes, murders and arson. I saw a little infant who died due to lack of food and medicine.

The hegemony of Myanmar's 'Nobel-winning' government held a very silent and long pause till the entire world started to meltdown on them. When they broke silence, they acted like they barely knew anything! They had to form a committee to investigate? Really! While Human Rights Watch already released satellite images of burnt down villages, world media dried out their throats saying "it's actually happening!" Really?

The United Nations said more than 27,000 Rohingya Muslims already entered Bangladesh since the bloodshed started in Myanmar. Bangladesh said the number might not be that high. In last two weeks, Bangladesh border guards in Teknaf town said they stopped over 70 Rohingya boats. Each boats usually carry 20-25 people on an average. That calculation takes the number to 1,400 people at least.

Bangladesh and Myanmar share the Naf for almost 52 kilometres. It's impossible to secure every inch of its banks. The Rohingya influx has slowed down, perhaps, true. But if the security force could prevent 1,400 people, then, how many are sneaking in?

Community leaders at the refugee camps, where many Rohingya people are living for generation, also expressed their anxiety over the influx. Many of the newcomers are their relatives. Hence, they simply cannot deny helping them. But being in a state of refugees themselves, how much could they possibly provide to the distressed?

"They came here penniless. I doubt how long we, the old refugees, will be able to help the new ones," a camp leader said.

Rohingya, probably the most persecuted refugees in today's world. When people are planning to start real estate business in the Mars, these people are being driven from their own homesteads. 120,000 of them were displaced during a sectarian clash in 2012. More than 32,000 Rohingya live in Bangladesh with state of refugees. hundreds of thousands live illegally. Bangladeshi law doesn't allow its citizens to mingle with them. Ergo they are deprived of most of the basic needs.

Many of them started career as drug and arms dealers. Handful of these people turned into human smugglers, only to make money to fill the stomach with food. Well, I don't patronise them, but, hey! Provide them another choice of life first!

Seldom the Rohingya are blamed for turning into Islamist militants. The local political powers also play game with them. I saw thousands of them and I can guarantee these people are religious simultaneously illiterate. They only know how to pray to Allah but they don't know how they need to help themselves because God said so in the Holy Quran! Majority of them don't have any education as there are barely any schools and colleges at the Rakhine villages. They only depend on the teaching of their Imams who are probably carry the old-school knowledge that has been passed on for generations.

I have no idea how long this entire nightmare will continue. Bangladesh is a small but densely-populated country itself and has its own massive problems. The silence of the international community will surely make things worse. I urge you all to create pressure on the "award-winning and democratic" Suu Kyi government to resolve it as soon as possible. If you don't want to, then at least denounce their numbness. Ask them to stop becoming the shame of mankind!

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DISCLAIMER: This is personal opinion of Sam Jahan. This write-up does not endorse any other individual/organisation's opinion. All photos copyrighted to Sam Jahan.