Not just Rohingyas, but many Hindu women also struggling to go to Bangladesh

News24xx.com -  The violence in Mianmar did not only happen to Muslims. Akhira Dhar sits in stony silence in one corner of the makeshift camp for Rohingya refugees.

Her glazed eyes have a blank stare that seems oblivious of the bustle in the camp as a fresh wave of refugees arrive.

It takes a long time for Akhira to return to the present.

In the past week, Akhira has seen her husband and in-laws death. Masked men armed with guns and machetes beheaded them after they looted everything the villagers had.

In the Rakhine state, violence and persecution obliterated religious boundaries. Hindu women were raped and killed before their villages were burnt.

At Fakir Bazar, the village where Akhira was married into barely a year ago, the masked men did not spare a single male member.

The blood and gore that she witnessed still numbs her. "They kill everyone," she murmurs.

She carrying a four-month life in her womb, managed the crossing across the hilly terrain and jungle tracts braving wild animals is difficult to comprehend but she did finally make it to Merinja opposite Naikhong Chari in Chittagong.

Now, she is now housed in Hindupara, a Hindu settlement within the Kutupalang Camp.

Rikha Dhar, another refugee in Hindupara, recounted how her husband who had a gold shop in Myanmar's Fakir Bazar was tortured by masked men till he disclosed where he had hidden the jewellery.

Once he did though, they slit his throat. "My husband told them about the jewellery when they threatened to kill our children. They then took him blindfolded towards the hills. When we were fleeing, we found his blood-soaked body along with hundreds of others," she recalled.

The masked men are convinced that they are not the armed forces as they speak the Rakhine dialect. These men, with their faces hidden, had spread a reign of terror in villages with Hindu settlements.