The Myanmar military issued a rare apology on Monday (September 3), acknowledging that two photographs it published in a book on the crisis over the Rohingya Muslim minority were "published incorrectly".

Two of the pictures in the book that aimed at illustrating the army's account of last year's events in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine, were in fact archive pictures of different conflicts, and one was posted with an incorrect caption.

The erroneous publication of the photographs comes amid a series of government steps against what it has seen as media abuses, including a report on army activity in an ethnic minority guerrilla zone and the flying of a drone in the capital, Naypyitaw.

Source: Yeni Safak

BDST: 1110 HRS, SEP 04, 2018

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