Myanmar government will harvest rice from abandoned farmland in violence-scorched northern Rakhine, state media said on Saturday, a move likely to raise concerns about the prospect of return for more than half a million Rohingya who have fled communal unrest in the area. The border region has been emptied of most of its Muslim residents since late August, when Myanmar’s military launched a crackdown on Rohingya rebels that the UN says likely amounts to ethnic cleansing. Hundreds of villages have been razed to the ground, with more than 600,000 Rohingya, a stateless group in mainly Buddhist Myanmar fleeing across the border for sanctuary in Bangladesh.