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We're only taken where authorities want us to go. our first stop, a village where there used to be more than 600,000 rohingya. the government says their forces did respond to terror attacks by rohingya extremists in 2017, but that the down their own houses. so, this is what's left of the rohingya village that was here. it's completely overgrown. it's hard to tell that there were any structures here at any point. the only clues we have to the violence that took place here are trees like this one, still a year later burying the scorch marks of the fires that burnt this village to the ground. cle...

Last year. a full u.n. report documents how the military and local groups engaged in rape, torture, and the murder of at least 10,000 people to get rid of the rohingya, a group many in broader myanmar regard as sub-human noncitizens. >> translator: regarding the army, they did everything within law. we cannot comment on whether it was right or wrong. >> reporter: the question is very simple. do you believe that genocide happened here or not? >> translator: i'd say genocide didn't happen. >> reporter: myanmar's civilian leader, nobel peace prize laurea laureate a laureate also denies genocide. ...

Reports of atrocities are rampant. matt rivers went to myanmar to investigate. he's joining us live with an exclusive report from beijing. matt, what did you find out? >> reporter: well, wolf, basically this trip is all about myanmar's government trying to change the narrative that's been accepted by the international community that you just laid out. so they invited us in, we listened to what they had to say, we judge it on its merits and we make a conclusion. here's our story. these people are rohingya muslims. some of those who fled from what the u.n. calls a genocide. myanmar's government ...

Entirevil entire villages being burned down. >> they are horrifying images. are they doing enough to help these people and if not, why not? >> well, unfortunately, since a similar type of violence back in october and november, her office has been spreading very, very irresponsible propaganda, deadly propaganda about the rohingya population and the state. it's worth mentioning the population in the state is not the government it's the state security forces but we do -- calling upon her administration, these are mass killings that are taking place right now and her office is not only doing nothi...