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Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, among the Reuters team that won a Pulitzer this week for its coverage of the Rohingya crisis, are serving lengthy prison terms for exposing state secrets.
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Did the rare gathering of many members of the former gov’t in full regalia at a military ceremony have anything to do with current politics?
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