As some of you may know I was fired from the Myanmar Times this week after the presidential spokesman Zaw Htay named me personally on his face book page last Friday and accused me of bias in a report I wrote on alleged military rapes of Muslim women in northern Rakhine.
As would be expected given sensitivities in Myanmar, the posts generated a considerable amount of hate speech against myself and the paper.
The reason given for my sacking was that the rape allegations story and "several" other unidentified articles I had written breached company policy by damaging national reconciliation and the paper's reputation. (Courtesy of yangon.coconuts.co)
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