{"id":219,"date":"2021-02-19T00:42:21","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2021-10-26T20:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T20:30:15","slug":"in-response-to-mynamar-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louisalovegallas.com\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"In response to Mynamar Op ED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.6.5&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.0&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<blockquote type=\"cite\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span><span>Dear Editors, <br \/>I am distressed over the decision you made about comments for Mr. Ali\u2019s profoundly disturbing op ed that deserves all the attention and feedback it can get. After only 51 comments you shut them down while at the same time continuing to take comments for David Brooks\u2019 op ed who already had 750. Here\u2019s Mr. Ali in dire danger in a refugee camp! The coup has put his people again in the lethal sights of another genocide. I wanted to say, \u201cWe Hear You. You are not alone.\u201d And more. Please explain your policy of shutting off commentary for a man and his people at such risk who writes under peril while another writer with so much more opportunity to be heard kept getting attention. I await your answer as truly I am troubled.\u00a0 \u00a0 Article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/18\/opinion\/myanmar-coup-rohingya.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/18\/opinion\/myanmar-coup-rohingya.html<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<h3 id=\"link-208e2b19\" class=\"css-19rw7kf e1h9rw200\" data-test-id=\"headline\">Where Do the Rohingya Go After the Coup in Myanmar?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-w6ymp8 e1wiw3jv0\">In the countrywide protests against the coup, nobody is talking about the future of the persecuted Rohingya minority.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-18e8msd\">\n<div class=\"css-vp77d3 epjyd6m0\">\n<div class=\"css-1baulvz\">\n<p class=\"css-4z5zii e1jsehar1\"><span class=\"byline-prefix\">By<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\" itemprop=\"name\">Mayyu Ali<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-8atqhb\">\n<p class=\"css-qckjh9 e1wtpvyy0\">Mr. Ali is a Rohingya poet who had to flee his home in Myanmar after the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya by the military.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editors, I am distressed over the decision you made about comments for Mr. Ali\u2019s profoundly disturbing op ed that deserves all the attention and feedback it can get. After only 51 comments you shut them down while at the same time continuing to take comments for David Brooks\u2019 op ed who already had 750. 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