Two Reuters reporters who have been jailed for more than a year for revealing a Rohingya massacre in Myanmar, are among the Pulitzer prize winners.

Two Reuters journalists, jailed for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, are among the Pulitzer prize winners.

The two honorees have been jailed for 490 days in Myanmar for their role in uncovering the killings.

The Reuters award was for an investigative report that revealed the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya at the village of Inn Din, in the heart of the conflict zone of Rakhine State in Myanmar.

The reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, both Myanmar citizens, found a mass grave filled with bones sticking out of the ground. They went on to gather testimony from perpetrators, witnesses and families of victims.

They obtained three devastating photographs from villagers: two showed the 10 Rohingya men bound and kneeling; the third showed the mutilated and bullet-ridden bodies of the same 10 men in the same shallow grave.

In December 2017, before Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo could complete their story, they were arrested in what international observers have criticised as an effort by authorities to block the report.

The article, Massacre in Myanmar, was completed by colleagues Simon Lewis and Antoni Slodkowski and published in February of last year.

In September, the two were sentenced to seven years imprisonment for violating the country's Official Secrets Act.

Reuters won another award for photographs of Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

The Associated Press was also awarded the prize for international reporting

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Story first appeared in SBS News on 16th April 2019