Democracy is on the ropes in Myanmar and the rest of the world

The Washington Post 

By Editorial Board

April 23 at 1:47 PM

Opinion 

 

Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo, left, and Wa Lone are handcuffed as they are escorted by police out of a court in Yangon, Myanmar, in September 2018. (Thein Zaw/AP)

  

TWO JOURNALISTS in Myanmar, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, were among those from Reuters awarded the Pultizer Prize for international reporting this month for documenting the plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority. But these two will not be enjoying the hugs of family and applause of colleagues. They are in jail — unjustly, in a case that can only cause outrage at what has gone wrong in Myanmar, also known as Burma.

Myanmar army ordered to take offensive against Arakan Army

Maj. Gen.Nyi Nyi Tun, vice chairman of the Myanmar’s military information committee, left, Maj. Gen. Soe Naing Oo, chairman of the Myanmar’s military information committee, center, and Brig. Zaw Min Tun, secretary of the Myanmar’s military information committee, attend a press conference at the Military Museum in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. (Aung Shine Oo/Associated Press)
 

By Associated Press January 18 at 9:35 AM

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s military announced Friday that the Arakan Army, a Buddhist rebel group in Rakhine state, has been classified a terrorist organization after mounting a flurry of recent attacks.

Reuters journalists challenge conviction under Myanmar state secrets act

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By Cape Diamond and Timothy McLaughlin
January 11

YANGON, Myanmar — A court in Myanmar is set to rule Friday in the appeal of two Reuters journalists jailed last year for violating the country’s colonial-era secrets law in a case that drew widespread condemnation from rights groups, foreign governments and media watchdogs as an attack on the free press.