Myanmar media left red-faced

Myanmar media left red-faced

BANGKOK (AFP): Myanmar authorities on Tuesday denied reports two journalists from a state newspaper were tortured and killed after a photograph of powerful junta First Secretary Gen. Khin Nyunt appeared under a headline reading The World Famous Crook.

The Sept. 25 issue of the official Kyemon (Mirror) newspaper carried a front-page photo of the junta first secretary and military intelligence chief at a meeting with church leaders.

An apparent printing error put the photo beneath a headline reading The World Famous Crook, the spokesman said. "The reason given by the printing house was quite logical."

Myanmar opposition radio later reported that 20 staff of the newspaper had been rounded up and interrogated. It said two of them had died under torture by military intelligence.