Nearly 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar seeking shelter from a bloody crackdown by the army. This was stated by the foreign ministry in Dhaka today.<br/><br/>The foreign ministry summoned Myanmar's ambassador to express "deep concern at the continued influx" of tens of thousands of members of the stateless ethnic minority into its territory.<br/><br/>Bangladesh has stepped up patrols to try to stem the tide of refugees crossing the border since an eruption of unrest in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine in early October.<br/><br/>Rakhine borders Bangladesh and is home to the Rohingya- a Muslim minority group loathed by many of Myanmar's Buddhist majority. Dhaka also demanded early repatriation of all Burmese citizens who have been living in the Muslim-majority nation for years, including some 300,000 Rohingya most of them illegally.<br/>