NYT: After Meeting With Trump, a Myanmar Clergyman Could Be Prosecuted

[TomSea]

After Meeting With Trump, a Myanmar Clergyman Could Be Prosecuted


President Trump with Hkalam Samson, a Baptist minister from Myanmar in white and a cap, at a meeting of survivors of religious persecution in the White House in July.CreditCreditAlex Brandon/Associated Press

By Richard C. Paddock and Saw Nang

    Sept. 3, 2019

BANGKOK — The Baptist minister from Myanmar had less than 60 seconds in the Oval Office to tell President Trump about the mistreatment and abuse his people suffer.

The minister, Hkalam Samson, told the president in July that ethnic groups in his homeland were being “oppressed and tortured by the Myanmar military government” and thanked him for imposing sanctions on four top generals.

Now, as if to prove Mr. Samson right, a colonel in the Myanmar Army has gone to court seeking to have the minister prosecuted for his comments about the military during that conversation with Mr. Trump.

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/03/world/asia/myanmar-minister-trump.html

NYT does some very good work, most but not all of what we don't like about them, are their editorial views.

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At first, the lady, Suu Kyii, the Myanmar leader, was very celebrated. She returned to that country in exile.

Now, things have turned turbulent there.

[PeteS in CA]

Myanmar has been persecuting non-Burmese and non-Buddhists for quite a few years (probably over a decade). The MSM just gave it little coverage until recently when it was the Muslim Rohingya who were the targets, and even that coverage has died away.