HANNAH BEECH and SAW NANGDecember 21, 2017 @ 9:05amAt the time, Myanmar’s Information Ministry said the journalists had tried to illegally procure information about Rakhine State, where international human rights monitors say Myanmar’s military has killed and raped thousands of Rohingya. Ethnic Rakhine Buddhists, who comprise the state’s ethnic majority, have also been accused of participating in the bloodletting and burning of Rohingya villages.

Source: New Strait Times December 21, 2017 01:07 UTC