Part Two of Two: June 2025 asylum officer questions of an activist from Burma:

Are you active in the US? what do you do? ever protest? 

Did you ever protest in Burma? [why do you suppose the officer asks the same question twice?]

What would happen if you return to Burma tomorrow? what would happen at the airport? how would they know you arrived?

Why do you fear returning? do you know anyone else, similarly-situated, who protested abroad and then who returned to Burma and was arrested at YGN airport?

What does your government think about people who studied in USA for three years? Are they going to be trouble-makers in Burma, because they have seen democracy in action?

What do you fear if you return? why would that happen?

Whom do you fear? [doesn't the officer know the answer to this question? why does he ask this?]

Dalan people in USA go to protests, take photos, and then tell the government who is in the photos?

Is there anything else? Yes? what?

Why did your uncle need to get a travel permit to drive his car from Yangon to Mandalay? The government has a limited amount of money? But instead of using it to build schools, roads, and hospitals, they hire thugs to harass their own people? They hire office workers to issue travel permits? Is the entire country like a prison?

You are a member of the Chinese ethnic group? Why do the Bamar hate the Chinese? What is the three Bs policy?