The two journalists, Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, were arrested in 2017 as they investigated the Myanmar military’s violent crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, and sentenced to seven years in prison.
In April, Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo, and their colleagues were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for “expertly exposing the military units and Buddhist villagers responsible for the systematic expulsion and murder of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar.” The story they were working on at the time of their arrest was published in February 2018, and detailed the killing of 10 men by villagers and troops in September 2017. A United Nations report last September that said Myanmar’s military had “genocidal intent” against the Rohingya and cited the situation of the Reuters journalists as part of a pattern of suppressing criticism and scrutiny of authorities’ propagation of hatred.
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