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- Reuters journalists have been freed after more than 500 days.They were charged by Myanmar under the country’s Official Secrets Act for reporting on a massacre of Rohingya civilians.
- They had also received this year’s Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.Pulitzer award was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.It is awarded yearly in twenty-one categories.
- Rohingya is an ethnic group, largely comprising Muslims, who predominantly live in the Western Myanmar province of Rakhine.They speak a dialect of Bengali as opposed to the commonly spoken Burmese language in Myanmar.
- They have not been granted full citizenship by Myanmar.They are classified as resident foreigners or associate citizens.Lakhs of Rohingyas have been displaced with majority of them seeking refuge in Bangladesh and India.
- In India, there are nearly 40,000 Rohingya refugees.According to Bangladesh and Indian security agencies,there has been a problem of growing Islamic radicalization among the Rohingyas.



