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The Villages UN Investigators Can't Visit

The 大象传媒's Nick Beake dodges minders on a visit to the scene of Myanmar's brutal military crackdown.

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled last year's brutal military crackdown in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar. Hundreds of villages were burnt to the ground, and there was widespread rape and murder. The UN described the campaign as "ethnic cleansing", though Myanmar's military says it is fighting Rohingya militants and denies targeting civilians.The country has refused to allow access to UN investigators, but officials recently took a group of journalists to Rakhine on a tightly-controlled visit.大象传媒 Myanmar Correspondent Nick Beake joined the trip.

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