Frontier Myanmar senior reporter Ko Mratt Kyaw Thu has won the Kate Webb Prize for Asian Journalists. The first Myanmar recipient of the prestigious award, Mratt Kyaw Thu was recognised by the selection committee for his coverage of conflict and communal strife across the country last year wrote Frontier Myanmar.
He was awarded for his works in Maungdaw in early October 2016 to chronicle attacks on police and military posts by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, which unleashed a massive security crackdown and sent around 90,000 refugees streaming across the border into Bangladesh.
Elsewhere, he documented clashes in northern Shan State that prompted people to flee their homes in dozens of villages last year, in a conflict that threatened to undermine the government’s fragile peace process.
Our Yangon based reporter Suu Sha talked to him about his work and his vision.
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