Members of the Myanmar diaspora protest in New York City's Times Square in May 2021. (Frontier)

How the BURMA Act passed congress

The act passed not due to an old guard tainted by anti-Rohingya prejudice, but thanks to a new coalition of ethnic minorities and youth, who made strategic alliances with US institutions and told the right story.

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