The New York Times recently reported on the release of political prisoner, U Pyinya Zawta, a Buddhist monk. The article begins:
Members of Buffalo’s Burmese community on Sunday streamed into a mint green cottage to welcome home a Buddhist monk and pro-democracy activist who had recently been released from a Myanmar prison after almost a year.
The well-wishers were celebrating the return of the monk, the Venerable U Pyinya Zawta, 65, whom Myanmar’s junta had sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges that human rights groups say are used to crush dissent, including “supporting revolutionary terrorists.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/nyregion/monk-myanmar-pyinya-zawta-buffalo.html
Thanks to Soror Amy for the tip!
