Gabriel gatehouse tells the story of one massacre in the village of tula toli. This programme contains distressing and graphic accounts and images of violence from the beginning. These people have just crossed the border. They are in no mans land and being driven from their homes. Now, they are waiting for permission to enter bangladesh. The rohingya are people that neither country want. What happened in your village . Transocean want. What happened in your village . Tra nsocean macro they just want. What happened in your village . Transocean macro theyjust burnt their houses. These are some of the survivors. They are hungry, sick and scared. Across the river, the rest of the brett campaign of terror going on. A deliberate. A campaign from which no one is safe. But what we dont know is how many people have been killed. We do have some idea of how many have been burnt and chased out of their homes. These are just a tiny fraction of the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people who have fled. In our investigation, we are going to focus on the events of one day, of one massacre in one village. Its name is tula toli. Since august, or than 600,000 people have sought refuge in the camps in blanket f. Bangladesh. People who brought little with them but the nightmarish memories of their experiences at the hands of the Burmese Military. We have come here to find survivors of the tula toli massacre. We have spoken to six of them, we have cross referenced their testimony with video evidence. Absolutely horrific pictures. With maps of the local area, as well as with interviews collected by human rights organisations. What emerges isa rights organisations. What emerges is a picture of systematic violence. Violence that has been described as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. Using a satellite photograph of the area, a Rohingya Alba showed me how the massacre unfolded. Elbow. The village of tula toli consist of a number of settlements surrounded on three sides by the meandering flow ofa three sides by the meandering flow of a river. In previous days, soldiers had set fire to other villages on the opposite bank. At wednesday morning, the 30th of august, the crossed into tula toli. There was panic. Everyone mentions the river. With the soldiers advancing from the north west and the police post to the south, many of the villagers ran east. It ended up on the riverbank. They were trapped. And hugh yourself on the other side of the river . This woman showed us where she and others from across the river at a point downstream where it was narrow enough to cross. They used in under trees and plastic canisters as life raft. Did you see this with your own eyes . From a heel on the opposite tank, they watched the horror unfold. The horrific scenes she witness still be a nightmare. But reform witnessed still give her nightmares. She watched the bodies of their neighbours children washed up on the riverbank. The scene was filmed by another villager. The childrens the child rens names the childrens names were rasheeda, five years old, cushion, three, and tahiti, ii five years old, cushion, three, and tahiti, 11 months. This woman, her husband and four children or managed to escape with their lives. Muhammad was not so fortu nate. Their lives. Muhammad was not so fortunate. He and his youngest daughter survived but three of her sisters were killed and so was their mother. The violence began five days before the massacre at tula toli on the 25th of august, when members of a rohingya militant group attacked a number of police post inside myanmar, killing 12. In response, the Burmese Military began what they called clearance operations. That was three months ago. Boats filled with refugees have been coming over ever since. The overwhelming majority of people in myanmarare the overwhelming majority of people in myanmar are buddhist. The Rohingya Muslims make up only a small minority over all but in Rakhine State, the region that borders bangladesh, there may be in the majority if it were not to the fa ct the majority if it were not to the fact that so many have fled. Even before the latest violence, the rohingya of myanmar were denied the most basic rights, the right to vote, the freedom to travel and access to decent education and healthcare. Now, some of them accused the burmese government of using the attacks by the rohingya militant as attacks by the rohingya militant as a pretence. A pretext for a vicious and indiscriminate crackdown against rohingya civilians. The bangladeshi authorities monitor what goes on from the other side of the border. And i have been told that from the beginning of august, about three weeks before the violence started, they noticed an increase in military activity on the myanmar side. Now, if that is true, it would suggest an element of preparation for the violence that followed. And this is a suggestion that we have heard corroborated some of the witnesses we have spoken to well. We were told about an incident that happened nearly two weeks before the massacre in tula toli. Also before the attacks by the militant group known as the Salvation Army which the Burmese Military claimed prompted their clearance operations. Were they trying to recruit people into village . Was there some truth to that . Witnesses said the policemen were called in by the village administrator, and local buddhist government officials. A few days later, the same official called a meeting. Elders from both communities were asked to sign a kind of peace treaty. Was that unusual, to be asked to do some like that . The rohingya of tula toli saw the document as an explicit guarantee of their safety. It is because of this that they stayed in their homes even when they saw other villages being burned. Now they believe the administrative doublecrossed them. Almost everyone we spoke to mentioned this village administrator, the local government representative. He would accuse the villages of supporting the militants, some said. 0thers villages of supporting the militants, some said. Others that he tried to force them to register as foreigners. Another Rohingya Alba told me that before the massacre he and the man had been in regular contact. Do you have his phone number . Can you call him . Human rights investigators and journalist have been trying to talk to this man for months. None have managed to contact him until now. Mr hussein lost a son and three grandchildren in the attack. Now, over a crackly phone line, he accuses the village administrator of complicity in the massacre. At the end of the conversation, mr hussein seems unconvinced. Do you believe him . The majority of myanmars Rohingya Muslims have, by now, already fled. Dispossessed and stateless, the mud soaked camps of bangladesh are what they must for now call home. The burmese government says its military operations just across the border from here in Rakhine State are a response to attacks by militants on the 25th of august. But what about those reports of troop movements weeks before the rohingya militants attacks . Well, were on our way now to meet an officer in the Bangladeshi Border guard who might know more about this and who might be willing to talk to us. Hello, major. Hows it going . Fine. Good. The major said he wasnt authorised to speak to the bbc on camera but we did have a conversation of camera and he said i could quote him with the following, that they saw from around the fifth of august a huge concentration, those are his words, of Myanmar Military in the border area. He said apart from burning peoples homes they extorted valuables and took their money. I asked him the purpose of all this, he said theyre trying to make Rakhine State rohingya free. There are members of the rohingya Salvation Army in these camps. We spoke to two of them. They said they lacked weapons. Experts who studied the group tend to agree. They almost certainly carried out some of the attacks that sparked the latest violence but they were unlikely to have been capable of the co ordinated action that riveted to them by the Burmese Military. Heres another thing the officer we spoke to at the border force said to me, he said theres some merit in the claim that at least some of those attacks were staged. He said to our knowledge there are hardly any active members of this group. But evenif active members of this group. But even if the militants did do all the things the burmese government said it did, nothing surely could justified the horrific nature of the response that followed. By late morning on the 30th of august on the riverbank at tula toli, dozens of people had already been murdered but it wasnt over yet. Some villagers had escaped by swimming across the river, but many remain behind, especially younger women who had been separated from the rest by the soldiers. Those who survived endured an ordeal of almost unimaginable horror. Severely burnt and wounded, she managed to crawl to safely and eventually escaped under cover of darkness. She came to bangladesh with her seven year old daughter. She was beaten by the soldiers but survived. The others did not. One of her children, she said, was burned to at least one other survivor of the tula toli massacre has reported that her young child was grown into a fire. 0thers her young child was grown into a fire. Others had infants torn from their arms. This woman is only 30 years old. The men who raped her and killed her children were soldiers. But she, like others, told us that non rohingya civilians took part in the attack that day as well, demanding money and valuables. I wondered about the buddhist village administrator. No one we spoke to say he personally took part in the attack and it seems unlikely that a local civilian official could have stopped the powerful Burmese Military. But there remains the question of whether he deliberately misled the rohingya villagers into believing they would be safe in their homes. Hello, sir. Its the bbc here. Just to say were recording this call. Can i ask you why did you not warn the villagers that the army was going to come in . The people here say that you wanted the rohingya out of the village, that you wanted them gone. The burmese government doesnt regard the Rohingya Muslims as citizens of myanmar. Stuck in the camps in bangladesh without official status, it will be hard for them to return home even if they felt it was safe to do so. The United Nations has called this ethnic cleansing. 0thers has called this ethnic cleansing. Others prefer the term genocide. By by whatever name you call it, the massacre at tula toli was a monstrous crime. A crime that burmese authorities are not investigating. Every evening on the border, more people try to cross from myanmar to safety in bangladesh. New arrivals say their villages are still being burned, that there are still being traced and terrorised from their homes. We asked the burmese government for a response to the evidence of a massacre at tula toli, they never got back to us. For now the violence continues with impunity. If it goes on like this there wont be many rohingya left in myanmar, and perhaps thats exactly what the burmese government wants. Hello, there. Its going to be cold this weekend, thats for sure, but many places will stay dry and see plenty of sunshine, so if you wrap up it wont be that bad. Plenty of showers though in the north and west. Certainly overnight plenty of showers across the north west of the uk, with wintriness mixed in, some cumulating snow over the hills, and that will lead to an ice problem in many northern and Western Areas to start saturday morning. It really will be a cold and frosty start. The wind will be a feature on saturday. That will make it feel colder than it actually is, and therell be plenty of showers to start saturday morning. Even longer spells of rain perhaps across the north and north east of scotland and into the northern isles, here with Gale Force Winds as well. Wintry showers across the west of scotland, into Northern Ireland and down on the north west england. Snow again on the hills. Some of these showers running through the cheshire gap, in towards the midlands already at 9am on saturday morning. Plenty of sunshine in the east and south east, but still a few showers running into west wales, cornwall and devon, so you get the picture. It really will be a cold start, but some areas seeing lots of sunshine. In fact, central, southern and eastern parts of the country will stay dry all day. Lots of sunshine, where showers continue in the northern and Western Areas, again with snow on the hills. Quite blustery as well with those strong north west winds. Well see values of 3 7 celsius. Add on the wind and it will feel even colder than that. But at least you have the sunshine to compensate further south and east. Thats the area of low pressure bringing the Gale Force Winds to the far north east of the uk. That slowly moves away and we start to see the influence of this area of High Pressure from the west, before this weather system moves in during sunday night. So it looks like with that influence of High Pressure the showers will ease down somewhat. Fewer showers in Western Areas on sunday. Again, there will be a few, with wintriness over high ground, but emphasis on dry and bright weather in northern, central and eastern areas before things turn cloudier across the west, with the arrival of the weather system. So again, it will be another cold day. This weather system is hurtling across the uk on sunday night and by monday morning it will be across southern and eastern part of the uk. A brief surge of milder air with the rain as it runs across southern areas. Behind it, though, sunshine and showers follow on, and again turning cold as arctic air begins to push down from the north. Double figure values for a time on monday morning. You can see the orange colours move away and then a surge of arctic air returns across the uk pretty much throughout the rest of the week. This is bbc news. Im gavin grey. Our top stories egypt launches airstrikes against the militants they say attacked a mosque in sinai which left more than 235 people dead. 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