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Bangladesh Copes With Chaos: Rohingya Refugees Are 'Coming And Coming'

Over 400,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in just the past three weeks. Aid agencies and the Bangladesh government are struggling to cope.
Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh on September 17. They are fleeing government violence in Myanmar. / Allison Joyce / Getty Images

A semitrailer pulls up, full of rice, water, clothes, medicine, biscuits.

Aid workers hand out the supplies to thousands of anxious, impatient and hungry refugees.

The scene is chaotic — and aid groups say that's how it has been for the past few weeks. Over 400,000 Rohingya refugees have fled government violence in Myanmar — where they are

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