Two reporters from Myanmar, who wrote an investigative report on the massacre of 10 Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces won a Pulitzer prize on Monday.
Reuters reported that Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in December 2017 in what international observers view as an effort by the government to stop the publication of their report.
“Massacre in Myanmar,” the article the reporters were working on, was completed by colleagues Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski and published in February 2018.
By September, the Reuters reporters were sentenced to seven years behind bars.
The Pulitzers, the most prestigious prize in American journalism, that have been awarded to journalists since 1917 as detailed in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
Other winners include, in the breaking news photography category, 11 Reuters photographers contributed pictures to “On the Migrant Trail to America,” a package of images of asylum seekers and others from Central America to the US border.
(PHOTO: REUTERS)
