Rohingya refugees are still fleeing from Myanmar to Bangladesh despite the two countries’ commitment start repatriating members of the minority ethnic group next week, a Bangladesh official said Friday, as quoted in Associated Press report. 

More than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims poured into Bangladesh after Myanmar’s military launched a brutal crackdown against them in August.

The AP has quoted Mohammed Mikaruzzaman, a top official in Bangladesh’s Ukhiya sub-district as saying that more than 100 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh in the past two days.

Bangladesh and Myanmar signed an agreement in November on repatriation of Rohingya Muslims. 

The process is expected to take about two years.

“I have visited some border points to see the possible routes for repatriation over last few days, but we have not finalized anything yet,” the Myanmar official said. 

Many Rohingya have expressed fears about going back to Myanmar.

A statement issued Thursday by nearly two dozen Rohingya organizations around the world demanded security guarantees for the refugees and their property before they return, the AP report said. 

This comes after a Human Rights Watch said in a report last year in December that Myanmar security forces have committed widespread rape against women and girls as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.

The 37-page report, “All of My Body Was Pain: Sexual Violence Against Rohingya Women and Girls in Burma,” documents the Myanmar military’s gang rape of Rohingya women and girls and further acts of violence, cruelty, and humiliation.

Many women described witnessing the murders of their young children, spouses, and parents.

“Rape has been a prominent and devastating feature of the Burmese (Myanmar) military’s campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya,” said Skye Wheeler, women’s rights emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of the report.

“The Burmese military’s barbaric acts of violence have left countless women and girls brutally harmed and traumatized.”

According to HRW, since August 25 the military has committed killings, rapes, arbitrary arrests, and mass arson of homes in hundreds of predominantly Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine State, forcing more than 600,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh.

Human Rights Watch has found that these abuses amount to crimes against humanity under international law. The military operations were sparked by attacks by the armed group the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) on 30 security force outposts and an army base that killed 11 Burmese security personnel.

This report was released just a day after US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the US is deeply concerned by "credible reports" of atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and called for an independent investigation into a humanitarian crisis in which hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh.