The biggest blow was the arrest in 2018 of two Reuters reporters who had been investigating a massacre of Rohingya civilians.
This coup was not a complete surprise inasmuch as the climate for press freedom had already been worsening again during the past three years. They again face systematic arrest campaigns and censorship, and many will resign themselves to working clandestinely in order to be free to report what is happening and to evade the police. The coup d’état of 1 February 2021 brought that fragile progress to an abrupt end and set Myanmar’s journalists back ten years. And the many reforms adopted in the ensuing years enabled Myanmar to rise 20 places in the World Press Freedom Index between 20. When the military junta disbanded itself in February 2011, after half a century in power, Myanmar’s journalists hoped they would never again have to fear arrest or imprisonment for criticising the government or military.
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