Journalists from a Rakhine State-based news media are currently fleeing to safe places while all the journalists from Magway and Bago Regions-based news media are also moved to border areas. Journalists working for a Mandalay-based news agency are also hiding in safe places. Due to the SAC’s arrests and prosecutions, journalists evacuated their residences and moved to other places in different possible ways. According to the survey assessment with 80 journalists, 38.5 percent are displaced internally, 14.8 percent to abroad, and 9 percent in safe zones, 8.7 percent in border areas, and 29 percent non-displaced but giving up their journalism careers.5 (Notice: The calculated figures are based on a limited sample size of 80 journalists.) 2.6. Threatening Family Members of the Journalists and Taking as Hostages When the residence of a chief editor working for Hakha based Chin Land Post news agency was raided and not found, his brother-in-law was arrested instead. The apartment of a Yangonbased freelance reporter, Thuzar, was also raided, and her husband was arrested. On 4th July, SAC’s forces raided the residence of a Pyay based Myaylatt Athan reporter Pyae Phone Paing. When they found out the journalist had already fled, they arrested his father and grandfather. In a similar case of a reporter working for a Shan State-based news agency, the reporter’s father was arrested as a hostage. When the reporter heard his father had been arrested, he left the 5 Source: Surveying 17 news media and 80 journalists and facts collected from media reports. Repeated Dark Age of News Media 14