Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh — Thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled to Bangladesh on Monday, driven by fears of starvation and violence. The UN has denounced the violence as ethnic cleansing. About 519,000 Rohingya have crossed the border since August 25, when attacks by Rohingya militants on security posts in Rakhine state sparked a ferocious military response. The EU is proposing shunning contact with Myanmar’s top generals as a first step towards new targeted sanctions to punish the military for the violence, according to a draft document seen by Reuters. Reuters reporters on the Bangladeshi side of the border, in Palong Khali district, saw several thousand people crossing from northern Rakhine on Monday. "Half of my village was burnt down. I saw them do it," said Sayed Azin. He had walked for eight days carrying his 80-year-old mother in a basket strung on a bamboo pole between him and his son. Soldiers and Buddhist mobs had torched his village, he said. "I left everything...
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