Aye Maung, the former chairman of the Arakan National Party – which is renowned for hardline views against the Rohingya Muslim minority – was sentenced for treason and defamation over an allegedly inflammatory speech in January 2018, a day before deadly riots. – EPA pic, March 19, 2019.
A MYANMAR court today sentenced a prominent ethnic Rakhine leader to 20 years in jail for treason, a verdict likely to intensify anger amid fighting between the ethnic group and the army. Security forces tried to calm hundreds of supporters outside the court in Rakhine state capital Sittwe as Aye Maung was escorted to a waiting police van following the verdict.
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