” Today’s announcement is yet another of the many wrongs imposed on the Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. They remain behind bars for one reason only: those in power want to the dark truth, ” says Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen J Adler in a statement.
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– news Reporting is not a crime and so long as Myanmar does not correct this appalling anomaly is the media in Myanmar is not free. Myanmar’s commitment to the rule of law and democracy remains questionable.
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was arrested in december 2017 for its work with the massacre of Inn Your a couple of months before. Ten men and boys from the highly vulnerable minority group, the rohingya had been executed as suspected terrorists of the soldiers and paramilitaries.
the Case is fraught with peculiarities, and in the spring, admitted one of the prosecutor’s witnesses that they planted secret militärdokument among the journalists ‘ possessions. The indictment comes just crimes against the country’s laws on state secrets.
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Despite this and several other gaps were convicted Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo in september to seven years in prison. The judgment has aroused strong international condemnation from states as well as by human rights organisations – as late as the week before had the united nations investigators found that the Myanmar carried out mass executions with the ”folkmordsavsikter” and that the country’s de facto leader, peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi contributed to the atrocities through his indulgence.
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amounts to more than a million and is primarily resident in Rakhine to the south of the bangladeshi andrastaden Chittagong, but after the 1962 military coup has become hard consumption. 2012 erupted in violence during the up after three muslim men allegedly raped and murdered a buddhist woman. That response took a bunch of buddhist men law into their own hands, beat to death ten muslims on a bus and after that escalated the conflict.
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condemnations from the International community has basically been to take the same line from both human rights organisations such as states. Aung San Suu Kyi has been heavily criticized for not doing something about rohingyernas vulnerability – she has called the ”fake news” – and the most benevolent interpretation is that she is still tightly held by the military.
