BANDARBAN, Bangladesh: Panic is gripping thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees living in no-man’s land on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, with daily clashes between Myanmar security forces and ethnic Rakhine insurgents.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar since a military crackdown started in 2017 — most to sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh — but many have been living in limbo on the border, unwilling to enter the camps or return home.

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