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TWO Myanmar journalists who exposed a military massacre appeared in court in Yangon today in a case that could see them jailed for 14 years, a day after they won a press freedom award.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on December 12 for allegedly violating the British colonial-era Official Secrets Act by receiving “important secret papers” from two policemen.
The story they were working on — a detailed investigation into the slaughter of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in the village of Inn Din by soldiers and Buddhists from a neighbouring village in September — was published by Reuters last week.
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