We had hope : Burmese Hoosiers protest military coup, seek support from elected officials Natalia E. Contreras, Indianapolis Star
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Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article incorrectly reported the number of Burmese refugees currently living in Indianapolis. As of 2020, the Burmese population in Indianapolis has grown to 24,000.
Sui Par was only 4 years old when she and her parents fled the dictatorship in Myanmar, formerly Burma.
They arrived in Indiana, but her grandparents still live in her home country, she said.
Though she was too young to remember the journey, her parents still deal with that trauma. And this week, the now 18-year-old student at Indiana University Bloomington witnessed the pain and heartbreak it caused her parents again to see Myanmar s military had seized control Monday in a coup.