After Myanmar military coup, Burmese in California struggle to seize the worldâs attention
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Members of the Burmese American community hold a demonstration outside the Office of the Consulate General of Myanmar in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Protesters denounced a coup by the military against the elected government of Myanmar, which has been struggling with stability and the reported ethnic cleansing of the country s Muslim minority. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
LOS ANGELES (Tribune News Service) â Banny Hong sighed as he sat at his Burmese restaurant on a recent weekday, recounting the violence that has swept through his homeland since a military coup nearly three months ago. Two portraits of Myanmar s civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi decorated the wall before him, flanking a photograph of Yangon, the nation s largest city.