southeast asia correspondent boston harty has been reporting there from me and mouth for many years welcome to the studio asked him what do you make of these two seven year jail sentences well i think on a personal level this is really tragic we heard in the report there both young fathers and well known hasn't even had the chance to meet his daughter who was only born a few weeks ago but if you look at the broader picture then i think this trial really speaks to the deterioration of press freedom and human rights in myanmar and this isn't in effect what these two were reporting on right they were reporting on human rights violations and atrocities committed in western me and maher in rakhine state where the muslim. minority has been targeted by military operations and which led more than seven hundred thousand of them to flee the country so how damning was the evidence that they got the government in the military was complicit in this is crucial if you if you think. the fact that the myanmar government in the military they've they've gone to great lengths to seal off this area and to not l