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Myanmar's military campaign against the Rohingya population is continuing, Amnesty International said, as it unveiled new evidence of violence forcing thousands to flee to Bangladesh.
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled to bordering Bangladesh since a military crackdown in Rakhine State last August.
Satellite imagery shows that Rohingya villages continued to be destroyed as Myanmar and Bangladesh singed a deal to return Rohingya refugees home.
A State Department official has said it is Myanmar's responsibility to repatriate refugees and investigate allegations of abuses, while on a visit to neighbouring Bangladesh.
More than 2,000 Rohingya massed along Myanmar's coast this week after trekking from inland villages in Rakhine state to join the refugee exodus to Bangladesh, state media reported on Saturday.
A Red Cross truck carrying aid for Rohingya Muslim refugees stranded in no-man's land crashed in Bangladesh on Thursday killing nine people, police said.
Bangladesh says it is struggling to cope with tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees who are crossing the border from Myanmar everyday.
Rohingya Muslims fleeing unrest in Myanmar have been injured by multiple blasts along the border with Bangladesh, raising fears that the area has been deliberately mined.
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh in the past 10 days following an uptick in fighting between militants and Myanmar's military in strife-torn western Rakhine state.
Cyclone Mora swept through Bangladesh on Wednesday, sweeping away thousands of primitive huts that many of the Rohingya Muslim refugees were living in.