With Hka San Lwi, Editor-in-Chief of Kachin Waves. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, a deadly landslide hits Hpakant, the National Unity Government moots setting up shop in Sagaing, the State Administration Council bans LGBT publications, and we discuss the ongoing battle for Bhamo and the importance of that city in northern Myanmar.

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Timecodes—

1m33s :: Weekly news digest
8m38s :: The Battle for Bhamo
19m53s :: Close

Our guest—

Hka San Lwi, Editor-in-Chief of Kachin Waves:

https://kachinwaves.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kachinwavesnews/

With Andrew Nachemson, former Managing Editor of Frontier Myanmar, and freelance journalist. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military regime pardons thousands of prisoners, Arakan Army fighting expands into Ayeyarwady Region, a Chinese celebrity is trafficked and rescued in Myawaddy, and we discuss the revolution in Karen State, including the fate of the Aung Zaya column, Border Guard Force politics, and the Karen National Union’s administration.

Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me

Timecodes—

0m46s :: Weekly news digest
4m40s :: Andrew’s trip details & logistics
9m14s :: Aung Zaya column
14m14s :: KNLA’s perception of Border Guard Force
19m25s :: KNU administration
23m53s :: Wider revolutionary context and KNLA’s modest gains
35m39s :: Close

Our guest—

Andrew Nachemson, former Managing Editor of Frontier Myanmar and freelance journalist:

Myanmar anti-coup forces target Mandalay in struggle to oust military

Where the Resistance Rules in Myanmar

Myanmar’s Armed Groups And Democracy Activists Are Joining Forces

Finding Marwi in Loikaw

‘We’ll never give up’: The fight for Loikaw

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