Nearly 600,000 Rohingya have been displaced from Myanmar's Rakhine state in the exodus described as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing" by the United Nations.
The Muslim refugees fleeing military violence have narrated horrrific accounts of rape, assault, torture and murder. Many have suffered serious injuries, burns, physical and mental trauma.
Aerial footage from October shows thousands of men, women and children amassing on Bangladesh's borders, their lives in limbo, waiting to enter squalid makeshift camps bereft of even the most basic amenities.
Forced to abandon homes and loved ones, refugees have described how they endured the horrific journey to safety through forests and over mountains, across rivers and seas.