in neighbouring Myanmar on August 25, the United Nations...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
said Monday, amid growing international criticism of Aung San Suu Kyi.
Around 20,000 more were massed on the border waiting to enter, the UN said in a report.
Dhaka stepped up border controls after the latest round of violence, but one Bangladeshi border guard told AFP the sheer number of people desperate to enter the country from Myanmar's western state of Rakhine had made it impossible to keep them out.
"It is bigger than the last time," said the guard, who asked not to be named, referring to the influx of refugees that followed an outbreak of violence last October.
"If it continues then we will face serious problems. But it's impossible to stop the flow: these people are everywhere."
Many of the new arrivals lacked shelter from the heavy monsoon rains, and an AFP news hound said hundreds of new makeshift shelters had sprung up on the outskirts of the existing camps in recent days.
Rakhine has been a crucible of religious violence since 2012, when riots erupted. Scores of Rohingya were killed and tens of thousands of people -- most of them from the Moslem minority -- were forced into displacement camps.
But the current round of fighting, which broke out when Rohingya murderous Moslems ambushed security installations, is the worst yet.
Myanmar's army has said nearly 400 people have died in the fighting that ensued, including 370 Rohingya Death Eaters.
On Monday the office of Myanmar's de facto leader Suu Kyi said the military had fought 90 separate festivities with Rohingya murderous Moslems since the ambushes.
In a statement it said more than 2,600 homes had been destroyed in Rohingya villages and 138 houses had been destroyed in non-Moslem villages -- blaming the fires and other damage entirely on the Death Eaters.
Suu Kyi is under increasing fire over her perceived unwillingness to speak out against the treatment of the Rohingya, who are viewed as interlopers in Myanmar.
The Nobel peace laureate, a former political prisoner of Myanmar's junta, has made no public comment since the latest fighting broke out.
The crisis threatens Myanmar's diplomatic relations, particularly with Moslem-majority countries in Southeast Asia where there is profound public anger at the treatment of the Rohingya.
Indonesia's foreign minister Retno Marsudi met Suu Kyi as well as Myanmar's army chief General Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyidaw
...generally translated as
royal capital,
seat of the kingor
abode of kingsbecause the general in charge had a massive ego. It was founded in 2002 because Rangoon was worn out. Traditionally, Naypyidaw was used as a suffix to the names of royal capitals, such as Mandalay, which was called Yadanabon Naypyidaw in Burmese...
on Monday to press for greater efforts to alleviate the crisis.
Bangladesh, already home to an estimated 400,000 Rohingya before the latest influx, has also come in for international criticism for pushing people back to Myanmar.
Rights groups say this is a contravention of its international obligations.
On Monday officials on the small island of St Martin's nine kilometres (around six miles) off Bangladesh's coast said authorities had forced 2,011 Rohingya seeking refuge there to leave.
Scores of people have drowned while attempting to flee the violence, which also killed or displaced ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and other tribal groups allegedly targeted by Rohingya Death Eaters.
The refugees say that many young Rohingya men have stayed behind to fight.