Updated March 19, 2019
Aye Maung, the former chairman of the Arakan National Party, which is renowned for hard-line 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.State-backed media at the time said he railed against the central government for treating the ethnic Rakhine as “slaves” and said it was the “right time” for the community to launch an armed struggle.
“Both Dr Aye Maung and writer Wai Hin Aung were sentenced to 20 years each… for the charge of high treason and two years each for defamation of the state,” Wai Hin Aung’s defence lawyer Aye Nu Sein told AFP.A brutal military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh.
The group launched a brazen attack on police posts in early January that killed 13 officers and killed nine more policemen earlier this month.
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