From the New York Times are Michael Bob. This is failing to look tree of Myanmar is accused of a state sponsored campaign, of mass, occur, weep and arse again the World hunger Muslims who live there. So why did the governor of the allow a times reporter to tour the epicenter of the alleged atrocity it's two August fort. We are following breaking news this morning: the: U S, government, declaring the ongoing violence against the rolling of Muslims and mean more as ethnic cleansing

the people are frightened hungry and stateless. The stateless muslim minority are the casualties of fresh clashes between Ruhinga letters and Myanmar's security forces, but human rights one condemned the latest evidence and says it proves a systematic slaughter of Romania's. I had been covering for many years the persecution of the rohingya, who are a minority muslim people. In Myanmar. Myanmar is majority Buddhists and last August they were attacked by Russia, muslim insurgents on some police post and an army station in northern Rakhine, which is where the rohingyas up are concentrated, and there was a very brutal, very mysteriously quick. I reaction to those insurgent attacks in which village burning executions raped and all the horrible things that costed at

something happened and within a very short period of time, around seven hundred thousand ruhinga fled from Myanmar to Neighbouring Bangladesh, and so I wanted to see the at the center conduct. Zero of ethnic cleansing. Hannah Beach is the South EAST Asia bureaucracy. For the times I spent months and months applying to get to northern kind: it's an area in which foreign journalists in particular have been basically not allowed to go. We could talk in refugee camps in Bangladesh to people who had very consistent, compelling stories, but you want to see the place. You know you want to see the charred villages. You want see the carcasses of the mosques you want to be there and memories are really difficult place to report. Even before you get there, you have to apply for journalist visa that can take weeks. If you take months and in

Why I got a letter from the burmese authorities and they sat? Congratulations. You have permission to go to northern refine and knowing what happened here, knowing that this is the upper centre of this military action. I find it shocking that the me in more government would allow journalists like you to the scene of what is essentially there on crime. Why would they do that? I think largely because from the Myanmar government and military perspective, this is not the sight of ethnic cleansing. What we heard over and over again his heart is, it is too, maybe believe, is that the rakhine and the military did not burn down the houses. They did not execute people, they did not rape, women. We heard that the rohingya themselves burn down their own bills, judges or down their own. Voters are absolutely and that's what we heard from dozens of people, I'm not

from the military and officials, but also from some adults, recline villagers- and you know it sounds kind of crazy. But this is the consistent narrative that you here so in their minds, are taking on a tour of a place where this thing that you have been told, as happened actually hasn't, happened away of untold it yes and that they want to correct our understanding of what happened. So how does this tour start? I was there with a group of foreign journalists and each can of journalistic group publication or tv network is given its own car. We have our own driver. We had a pretty nice soldier who had a gun that was very close to our shoulders. You have a mind river mind or that we have a liner and armed minder who is in the back of our car and every time we would stop empty glass

Tawkify Adam Dean really wanted to capture images and then take pictures of the burned out moths and things and that one points are friendly. Bummed police guy saw Adams running down the street and he commented to song of my burmese journalist that call that you said you know is you're a photographer over there. I I I think if he doesn't have a bulletproof head, it would be advisable for him to come back there's another at that. Don't seem like a nicely worded threat and they got very angry at certain points. When we try to get the car, I try to have strategic Lee upset stomachs, so we would say

and I will get out and slowly make my way to the bathroom- and that would give Adam some time to be able to photograph and it would give sunning my colleague times can chat with people and so their ways in which we try to stop the car to get out stretch our legs and maybe try to do as much news gathering in that short period of time as possible to take up one of these stocks that you make amateur. It's a two of the most remarkable places where waste were were repatriation centres that had been built to welcome. There were hinder, who were in Bangladesh in the refugee camps. Back to the whole time it was just pouring rain and the sky and the sea and the mud. Everything is,

on- and so we can it- we ve got our range jacket, found. We gotta umbrellas and work in a flash last flashing through and we arrive at a place with barbed wire rounded their armed guards stationed very close to each other, holding their and ancient burmese rifles, and we way through the water I mean if Hollywood wanted to come up with a concentration camp setting. This would be a pretty good one and we walk in its white paper. Advocating a building site, are large and why this is the river traditions. And this is where we're gonna welcome back. There were hinder, who had fled to Bangladesh, Clearly, the government wants to show off what they have constructed. Even though they dont believed that the Muslims along in their country

you're being magnanimous and their allowing them to combat those retreats due to be transferred to another level of our societies, have temporary camp and its curious because they don't seem to be very many people around, except for soldiers there, coupled dogs, which, sort of strange in a place where your welcoming Muslims back and we walk into one room slashed last lush and on the ground, is a row of kind of terrified looking were hinder and that kind of curled up and kneeling and over them are sold. There is not pointing guns at them exactly, but there you know their guns are prominent and we start talking to these people, and it turns out that these people had not been repatriated. What you mean well, they had been living in their villages. In me,

And one day they said Myanmar authorities came and through the in jail. They were in jail for five and a half months, and then they were released and charged with illegal immigration, even though they had been arrested in their villages in Myanmar, for they had never left. They had never even left the country and we had been given the impression that these are people who had been repatriated. So these are essentially props their props and they're sitting coward on the ground, surrounded by people with big guns, who either precise

people who will be associated with the ethnic cleansing of their people. It was an extraordinary surreal are either in ITALY's prisoners, while they were prisoners and now they cannot leave a concentration camp that its ring by barbed wire and monitored by soldiers and armed immigration guides. I'm struck him of it. This is one of the best. The government can do its remarkable because I'm not a mere my government official, but if I were Try to bring foreign journalists to place. I don't know I would protect them better. You know I would find somebody who would be able to give a more compelling story, and I think it shows not only the incompetence of the government, but I think they just didn't know how to prepare carefully enough, because they can't really get their heads around what it is that the world thinks about Myanmar now

because I'm curious why this ethnic cleansing campaign by the government would allow for any of their anger, like the ones you are meeting in this welcome centre. To be they're alive, so yeah I mean there was a clear push to get a lot of people out, but there are still a significant number of four hinder who live in the country who stayed by who stay behind, and there are people who try to leave and couldn't leave and one of the most remarkable experiences I had. We were trying to cross the river and we weren't show whether the cow be able to cross the river, and so we got out of the car and suddenly we see these people waiting through the water and we look at them. When I got my gosh, there will hang in there. We ve had a rush after them in and start talking with them, and why

There was a woman who was in her probably seven days and I M, because it was raining so heavily. I kind of pushed her under this police hut and as soon as we got under the police had she was just shaking them had never seen I spoke a few words in the bank, a language to her when she was holding my hand- and she said you know- I don't I don't I don't wanna be here. I don't wanna be here, but I can't leave and there were some armed guards quite near us, and there is one point leave behind me and I could see in issues can a leading an but every now and then her eyes were dark behind me and I had a look, and I realise that there was an armed guard there and she said I do not want be near those people. I dont like those people. She was right

We almost too scared to speak, but it was one of my rare moments when I was having kind of a free interaction with a rainbow in Rakhine State, which is, of course their homeland right. And what did she manage to? When this truncated conversation, she managed to tell me that her village had been burnt down. She managed to tell me that she had tried to escape to Bangladesh and had not been able to do so, and it seems like now. She has been and is constructed to a certain radius around where she's living, but she can't go very much further and every time I saw her walk by or even kind of see somebody who represented Myanmar Officialdom, her whole body, language change and, as she kind of crowd she didn't want to make eye contact. She's just seem like

an absolutely traumatize terrified person who or what are you thinking as you're talking with a ring, a woman like that? Some? Are you worried that she and as well, that the people who were in that welcome centre will be punished for talking to you? It seems like they could really facing serious consequences for telling the truth, which is at odds with the government's story. In her case, she really wanted to get her message out, and it was one of the situations where I think she understood the implications of what she was saying. She was saying I am trapped. I want to get out of here. Please send the message that we are a terrified people and we don't have many choices and the fact that we suddenly run into a foreign journalists, as were crossing of swollen river in Myanmar, has given her this kind of unprecedented opportunities to get a message at the world.

Most of the time that we were on this trip. We were in a car and it was very frustrating and many times because it was raining. We couldn't see very clearly out of the car

I was having to unroll my window and real roll it out to make sure the condensation wasn't too bad and we would see tantalizing little glimpse of things and we asked a driver. We said so or any of the burned village is forget about who burnt villages. It was it there were hunger or is it the right kind, where the burn villages and these it? Oh, I don't think they're really any around here and then we started as we are driving. We would see, signs were summoned. The places where we knew massacres had happened of one of the tell tale signs of a village that had been burnt with it. The palm trees themselves were still there, but they were blackened poles and at the very top of the palm tree we usually have the France. There was

I think they're. So you had these kind of forlorn. Looking sticks, pause sticking out, and so once we saw those, we knew that we were in an area where there had been a ruhinga village and then your eyes become a tuned, and you start seeing little things like at one point: we saw the dome of a mosque and of toppled on the side with the star on it and these little bits that showed that hundreds of thousands of people have lived in this region, but there was nothing left, except for detritus, and eventually we were able to get to a small village. Where again, we met with the locals and the government officials, and they said the usual line, which is yes, there were hanged,

burn down their own villages, and then they mysterious they laughed and they haven't come back. We don't really understand why, and I went actually to a few houses and just kind of slipped, and it was raining quite heavily. So it's easier to set up get away from the minders meaning has maybe they're umbrellas went but his eyes were. They didn't want to be seen in a split splashing through their the water and we got to house and there was a family there. And there was a little girl she may be. Fourteen years old, she said well why you here- and I said well because of their troubles last year- and she said he I you know, I'm a little bit sounded out the troubles because I had a muslim friend who lived, few doors down, and I really miss her, and we talked about our friend and you know, is clear that was one of our best is, and I said so what what happened to her and she says she's, quiet and she said well that,

rakhine kind state burn down burn down the muslim houses? This is the first time that I had heard. Somebody in reclined state tell what I a was narrative, true narrative and it's a child and its a child, and she was innocent enough, not know what the narrative that she was supposed to give to foreign journalist was, but immediately there was a young man next to her and he kind of poker and said you know, that's not what you're supposed to say. You're supposed to say that the Muslims burn down their own villages and then the girl look kind of shamefacedly. She looked down at the ground and then we went outside and we were near a soccer pitch and there were some kids playing soccer and so When I went over and was talking to a few kids and one of them came up and he's gonna run this kid's, he was gonna win preteen, but just had a confidence about- and I said so high and it what's your name

talked about Manchester United. We talked about football for a while, and I said so over there that used to be the area with Muslims lived, he said yeah, you know they were kind burn down their houses. I thought oh that's interesting. So now we ve got. Secondly, in a second child corroboration- and I said but- I thought that the Muslims burn down their own villages, and he looked at me and he said, but that's stupid. Why would the Muslims burn down their own villages, which is a very good question and it was posed by We now young child. What is lifelike now in these places where there are hunger used to be the majority, and now these other people are just kind of living their lives there I mean there's a sense of emptiness because

this area was predominantly muslim, and now it's not, but in the remaining village is two things have happened, one the rocks,

in and their other ethnic minorities, mostly Buddhism. A lot of them have been given new homes. There are these new little prefabricated shacks that have been gifted to the buddhist populations, but the other thing that happened is that there has been a very concerted effort to build over some of the areas where the Muslims lived. So, for instance, in the village, with his two kids, we visited a nice new school and with asked around two. So what used to be where this nice, whom I marry school, was oh, that might have been where the Muslims lived literally paving over their paving over an as your driving. You see bulldozers. A lot of the companies that were crony companies to the military have been supporting an effort to essentially a race, any kind of proof

Did the Muslims lived there? There was one village called in DEN, and that was famous for massacre, and I remember, driving in and reading the stories of where these Inga man had been executed and the description was of a road and then such a grassy area and then the ocean, and suddenly we found ourselves on a road next, a grassy area and then the ocean- and we saw the signed for India and looking back and saying somewhere here, this is where the mass happened and there is no sign of where it was, and it was so spooky and so surreal to become a racing by their as our drivers thing. Yonah, there's nothing here. This there's nothing

see, I mean you know you, you feel like you're gonna in a massive graveyard. We know how of the store that the government wanted to create in this tour. What is the story in the end that this tour actually told you one of the things that struck me most bout covering this issue is that the way in which the West, in particular and Thirdly, the international community Seas, the Ruhinga issue and those people in Myanmar, see there were hanging issue there completely diametrically opposed and I've been covering Myanmar for a long time and in many ways Myanmar was a good news story read because it was a country in which a secretive military junta voluntarily Bloodless Lee

some power and allowed a Nobel Peace Prize laureate named uncensored. She to be able to run part of a civilian administration and given all of the other trajectories in the world which are pretty negative. The rise of the strong man, the failure of the arab spring. This was such a powerful foreign policy story in which democracy seem to be moving in the right direction, and so I think particularly those who are fighting the good fight for democracy fell almost betrayed when the narrative from the west, turned from that to saying we ve got a problem guys, because what you are doing and in northern recline is ethnic cleansing, and so I think that one of the reasons that the Myanmar government allowed us to go on this. Fred was because they really wanted us to go back to that story.

They wanted to have good news, the good you are there other goodest, yet at and to say look eyes. You know we ve got a lot. Other issues and really is ethnic cleansing thing. It's not ethnic cleansing and buy them. There were hang a burn, their houses down and let's correct you're, mistaken impression, and unfortunately, by the end of the tour. That's not what I thought. How thank you very much for for telling a story for doing this report. Thank you very much will be right back.

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