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Will be here with a full round up of the days news. First, our world. 0ver recent months hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled from myanmar to bangladesh, driven from their homes facing terrible violence. 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. Theyre in no mans land, theyve been driven from their homes in myanmar. Now, theyre waiting for permission to enter bangladesh. The rohingya are a people that neither country wants. What happened in your village . Theyjust burnt our houses. These are some of the survivors. Theyre hungry, theyre sick, and theyre scared. Across the river, theres a deliberate campaign of terror going on. A campaign from which no ones safe. Well, we dont know how many people have been killed. But 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, were going to focus on the events of one day, of one massacre in one village, and its name is tula toli. Since august, more than 600,000 people have sought refuge in the camps in bangladesh. People who brought little with them but the nightmarish memories of their experiences at the hands of the Burmese Military. Weve come here to find survivors of the tula toli massacre. Weve spoken to six of them. Weve 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 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 elder showed me how the massacre unfolded. The village of tula toli consists of a number of settlements surrounded on three sides by the meandering flow of a river. In previous days soldiers had set fire to other villages on the opposite bank. That wednesday morning, the 30th of august, they crossed into tula toli. There was panic. Everyone mentions the river. With the soldiers advancing from the north west and a police post to the south, many of the villagers ran east. They ended up on the river bank. Gunfire and you yourself were on the other side of the river . Anora showed me and others where she swam across the river. To a point downstream where it was narrow enough to cross. They used banana trees and plastic canisters as life rafts. Did you see this with your own eyes . From a hill on the opposite bank, they watched the horror unfold. The horrific scenes she witnessed still give her nightmares. Anora watched the bodies of her neighbours children wash up on the river bank. A scene that was filmed by another villager. The childrens names were rashida, five years old, kushida, three, and zahidia, who was 11 months. Anora begum, her husband and her four children all managed to escape with their lives. Mohammed 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 august, when members of a rohingya militant group attacked a number of police posts 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 since. The overwhelming majority of people in myanmar are buddhists. Rohingya muslims make up only a small minority overall. But in Rakhine State, the region that borders bangladesh, they might be in the majority, if it werent for the fact 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 health care. Now, some have accused the burmese government of using the attacks by the rohingya militants as a pretext. A pretext for a vicious and indiscriminate crackdown against rohingya civilians. The bangladeshi authorities monitor what goes on on the other side of the border. And ive been told that from the beginning of august, so about three weeks before the violence started, they noticed an increase in military activity on the myanmar side. Now, if thats true, that would suggest an element of preparation for the violence that followed. And this is the suggestion that weve heard corroborated by some of the witnesses weve spoken to, as 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 Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army which, the Burmese Military claims, prompted their clearance operations. Were they trying to recruit people in the village . Was there some truth to that . Witnesses said the policemen were called in by the village administrator, a local buddhist government official. A few days later that 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 Something Like that . The rohingya of tula toli saw that document as an explicit guarantee of their safety. Its because of this that they stayed in their homes even when they saw other villages being burnt. Now they believe the administrator double crossed them. Almost everyone we spoke to mentioned this village administrator, the local government representative. His name is mr singh. He would accuse the villagers of supporting the militants some said, others that he tried to force them to register as foreigners. Another rohingya elder told me that before the massacre he and mr singh had been in regular contact. Do you have his phone number, can you call him . Human rights investigators and journalists 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 soa ked 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 rahkine state are a response to attacks by militants on 25th august. But what about those reports of troop movements weeks earlier, before the rohingya militant attacks . Well, we are on our way now to meet an officer in the Bangladeshi Border guard who might know more about this and might be willing to talk to us. Hello, major. Hows it going . Yeah, fine. Good. Well, the major said he wasnt authorised to speak to the bbc on camera but we did have a conversation off camera. And he said i could quote him with the following. That they saw from around 5th august, a huge concentration, those were his words, of Myanmar Military in the border area. He said apart from burning peoples homes, they extorted valuables, took their money. I asked him what the purpose of all of this was. He said they are trying to make Rakhine State rohingya free. There are members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army in these camps. We spoke to two of them. They said they lacked weapons. Experts whove 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 be capable of the kind of co ordinated action attributed to them by the Burmese Military. Heres another thing that the officer we spoke to in the borderforce said to me. He said that there is 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 even if the militants did do all the things that the burmese government said it did, nothing, surely, could justify the horrific nature of the response that followed. By late morning on the 30th august, on the river bank 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 remained 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 burned and wounded, mumtaz managed to crawl to safety and eventually escape under cover of darkness. She came to bangladesh with her seven year old daughter. Her daughter was beaten by the soldiers, but survived. The others did not. One of her children, she said, was burned to death. At least one other survivor of the tula toli massacre has reported her young child was thrown into a fire. Others had infants torn from their arms. Mumtaz is only 30 years old. The men who raped her, who 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 said he personally took part in the attack, and it seems unlikely 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 we are 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. Others prefer the term genocide. By whatever name you call it, the massacre at tula toli was a monstrous crime. A crime the burmese authorities is 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 they are still being chased 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. Thanks forjoining me. That time again when we take a look in some detail at the forthcoming week and then well push it further into the forthcoming weekend and beyond. By that stage well be looking at scenes rather than at your day by day forecasting. Monday sta rts day by day forecasting. Monday starts on a relatively mild thee. Moist, mild air is trapped in the circulation, a big area of low pressure throwing its weather front into the southern parts of britain a wet commute for many here. Quite breezy as well. So tricky driving conditions, persistent rain for the north of scotland clearing off into the north sea, leaving all of us eventually in this mixture of sunny spells and blustery showers. Just about to show you the temperatures, double figures widely across the south of england and wales. Probably the last time im going to say that in the forthcoming week. That is the mildest day of the week by some distance. Thats because we will still have had the legacy of the mild air trapped still have had the legacy of the mild airtrapped in still have had the legacy of the mild air trapped in weather fronts. As it slips towards the south, it opens all of us up to a cooler regime. I say cooler by tu, even though some temperatures in the south as you will see have dropped by five or six degrees. It gives me somewhere to go with my language as we move towards wednesday and thursday. You will see why we say that in a second. Wind on the Eastern Shore noticeable. Coming in a cold direction and the showers wintry, not just in a cold direction and the showers wintry, notjust in the north of scotla nd wintry, notjust in the north of scotland but places like the moors will pick up a spell as well. By wednesday, maybe isoba rs will pick up a spell as well. By wednesday, maybe isobars toppling further east of north, allowing showers to be pushed inland across eastern counties and further south down towards the wash, towards norfolk. Look at how the temperatures have fallen away, three, four, five, six, seven. By wednesday into thursday, developments perhaps over towards denmark to put a squeeze on the isobars. Really denmark to put a squeeze on the isoba rs. Really ramp denmark to put a squeeze on the isobars. Really ramp up the wind on thursday, and snowshowers plenty. Plenty across eastern and northern scot countedies in england and scotland. Four, five, six degrees widely across the british isles. For thursday into friday, no longer a straight flow from north to south. Notice how the isobars have backed more in towards the north west. Weather front not a million miles away from the northern half the british isles. So it could be a greyer day. Still on the cool side so pretty chilly but maybe temperatures coming up a degree or two thanks to the loss of that straightforward northerly wind across the british isles. As i sake you from friday on into the weekend, so this High Pressure is trying to be the more dominant feature, the low having slipped further towards the east. So thaends up with more of a north westerly flow for many more parts of the british isles. That means not wall to wall sunshine there. Could be a lot of cloud, given that flow has come in from the atlantic, picking up moisture all the while. But further ahead than that, we see things in the models which suggest we may well revert to type with low pressure in the east, High Pressure in the west and more ofa High Pressure in the west and more of a straightforward northerly. So wilder next weekend we think but then the return of this arctic origin airand perhaps then the return of this arctic origin air and perhaps some strength in that wind from that very cold direction. Bye, bye. The growing divide between the uk and the Irish Republic over border arrangements after brexit. And the Irish Republic over border the International Trade secretary says arrangements can only be finalised during eu trade talks ireland says it could veto moving on to those without more progress on the border. With an eu deadlinejust over two weeks away, well be exploring how far apart the two sides are. Also tonight two teenagers are in custody after a car crash in leeds killed five people, three of them children. 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