BURMA - Journalists Freed

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

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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.

UNITED NATIONS - Rohingya Atrocities

"Amid ‘mounting evidence of atrocities,’ UN calls for investigation into Rohingya crackdown" PBS NewsHour 8/27/2018

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SUMMARY:  The U.N. is calling for an investigation into Myanmar’s violent crackdown last year against the Rohingya, a Muslim minority group.  But Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are finally receiving aid, and despite repatriation discussions, many are reluctant to return to the people who brutalized them.  Nick Schifrin talks to special correspondent Tania Rashid and Refugees International's Dan Sullivan.