YANGON: Myanmar’s civilian government on Wednesday defended the detention of three journalists who were reporting on an armed ethnic group, an incident that has fuelled alarm at the erosion of press freedom.
The journalists were among seven people detained by the military on Monday as they left a drugs-burning ceremony organized by the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), one of several rebel groups fighting the state.
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