Monday, May 13, 2019

BURMA - Journalists Freed

"Why these reporters spent 18 months in a Burmese jail" PBS NewsHour 5/7/2019

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  After nearly 18 months, two Reuters journalists have left prison in Myanmar.  The crime that put them there: Revealing information the country’s government wanted to suppress, about its persecution campaign against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority.  John Yang talks to Priscilla Clapp, a former U.S. diplomat who served as chief of mission in the American embassy in Myanmar, about the developments.

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