• Bangladesh & the New Rakhine State

  • Jan 3 2025
  • Length: 35 mins
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Bangladesh & the New Rakhine State

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  • With Laetitia van den Assum, former Dutch ambassador to Myanmar and member of the 2016-2017 Advisory Commission on Rakhine State. This fortnight on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military loses more towns in Rakhine and Chin states, internet and motion picture laws are tightened by the State Administration Council, and we discuss Bangladesh’s hopes for a conference on the Rohingya crisis and Rakhine State under Arakan Army rule from an international perspective.

    Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me

    Timecodes—

    1m15s :: Weekly news digest

    6m02s :: With Laetitia, the Rakhine Commission
    11m18s :: Firm Arakan Army control in Rakhine State
    16m50s :: The new Bangladesh UN conference
    26m10s :: Future of Rakhine State

    33m10s :: Close

    Our guests—

    Laetitia van den Assum, former Dutch ambassador first posted to Southeast Asia in 1995, then accredited as ambassador to Myanmar from Bangkok, and member of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State in 2016:

    Bangladesh, the Rohingya and the new reality in Rakhine

    And as a bonus link, given cinema censorship is in the news again this week, check out the short film Ban That Scene:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gckHgn2a7fg
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