During 2018, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo received a number of international awards, including being listed among Time magazine's Persons of the Year for 2018.
[6] Oo, along with fellow Reuters journalist Wa Lone, was investigating the Inn Din massacre; they were arrested on 12 December 2017 and released on 7 May 2019.
On 1 September 2017, armed soldiers and paramilitaries detained ten Rohingya men who reportedly had gone to the beach to look for food.
[8] Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were investigating the mass grave found in Inn Din.
[9] They interviewed Buddhist villagers and security personnel and gathered both verbal accounts and photographic evidence of the massacre.