Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo sought only to reveal to the world the horrors endured by Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority, who've been driven to exile in Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands, if they weren't first massacred in what a United Nations investigation last month declared genocide committed by government security forces.
A judge in that same government of unprosecuted war criminals last week found the two Reuters reporters guilty of scheming to violate state secrets and ordered them imprisoned for seven years.
The Myanmar government whose civilian wing is headed by the once-exalted, now-disgraced Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi attempts to disappear two brave men who did their part to expose the crimes. Here, it's the cover-up _ and the crime.
The above editorial appeared in the New York Daily News. It was distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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