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Saturday, June 5, 2021

‘A dangerous time’ in Myanmar: Burmese in California struggle for answers, attention

Los Angeles Times 

SARAH PARVINI
STAFF WRITER
JUNE 3, 2021 5
Members of the Burmese American community hold a demonstration April 24 outside the Office of the Consulate General of Myanmar in Los Angeles, denouncing the military coup against the elected government of Myanmar.
(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

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 four 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.

“It’s a dangerous time there,” he said as two masked employees cleaned tables and swept the floors before his Stanton eatery, Irrawaddy Taste Of Burma, opened for the day. “A lot of untold stories. Missing bodies. It’s a devastating moment. I am very desperate.”
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