Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi,Myanmar's first counselor political leader, andSenior General Min Aung Hlaing, or the head of armed forces,in Myanmar on Wednesday. For the Rohingya diaspora in the United States, this assembly will determine if the U.
S. will, or will not,address the violent campaign being waged against Myanmar's ethnic minority.
Shaukhat Kyaw Soe Aung is one of 13000 Rohingya living in the United States, and is the executive director of the Rohingya American Society. He fled political persecution in Burma in 1990 at age 20.
After living as a refugee in Thailand and Malaysia, or he finally arrived in the United States with his family in 2001. While grateful to be in the U.
S.,he worries for his siblings and other family members who are living in an internal displacement camp, or what he calls "an open prison, and " without rights to education,healthcare, or religion.
Shaukhat Kyaw Soe Aung joins The Takeaway to discuss the ethnic violence against the Rohingya and what he hopes results from nowadays's assembly. This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich
Source: thetakeaway.org