Heroes treated as criminals.

I don't know if the Burmese government didn't want to expose the massacre for political or real world reasons. It is difficult to conceal a massacre and the Burmese government should realize atrocities become a source of instability in a country. The journalists and their investigators brought FACTS to light before the government was actually considered responsible for the massacre as a policy issue.

Also, Burma is Myanmar. The health of the journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo is deteriorating. (click here)


April 11, 2018
By Nicola Smith

Detained Reuters journalist Wa Lone is by police after a court hearing in Yangon

Seven Burmese soldiers (click here) have been sentenced to ten years of hard labour for their role in the massacre of ten Rohingya Muslim men in the village of Inn Din in Burma’s northwestern Rakhine state last September.

The sentence for “contributing and participating in murder”, which will be carried out at a “remote location”, was announced in a statement published on the Facebook page of Commander-in-Chief, Min Aung Hlaing, on Tuesday.

However, two Burmese journalists who helped bring the massacre to light through their investigations remain behind bars. Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw So Oo, 28, were arrested in December and face charges of violating the country’s Official Secrets Act.