What's Happening in Myanmar

This week on Season 2, Episode 4 of What's Happening in Myanmar, Suu Kyi was reportedly moved to house arrest amid scepticism, while fighting intensified as the military retook key towns. International legal action and ASEAN diplomacy continued amid growing scrutiny of the crisis.
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Timecodes—
(00:16) Intro
(00:35) ASSK moved to house arrest
(02:15) Regime increases battlefield gains
(03:39) International lobbying and accountability
(05:35) ASEAN summit grapples with crisis
(06:31) Close

This week on Season 2, Episode 3 of What's Happening in Myanmar, the junta says Aung San Suu Kyi 'moved to house arrest', claims battlefield victories, and secures China's backing while cracking down on journalists. Resistance groups, meanwhile, are fractured by internal conflict and exhaustion.
 
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Timecodes—
(00:05) Intro
(00:17) Aung San Suu Kyi 'moved to house arrest'
(00:59) Regime victories and fractured alliances
(02:03) China's endorsement and the Myitsone dam
(03:38) Press crackdown
(05:02) Crisis at Frontier
(05:52) Resistance under fire
(07:14) Close

This week on Season 2, Episode 2 of What's Happening in Myanmar, the junta grants a New Year amnesty but kept key leaders under surveillance. Airstrikes killed civilians during the holiday, while peace talks were rejected. The opposition and observers of the crisis see these moves by the 'new' government as little more than tactical.
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Timecodes—
(00:22) Amnesty, airstrikes, and resistance
(00:48) Selective releases, continued repression
(02:55) Holiday airstrikes and civilian casualties
(04:05) TNLA political fallout
(04:47) Kayin conflict spillovers into Thailand
(05:33) Min Aung Hlaing's 100-day plan
(06:28) Diplomatic engagements and peace rejection
(07:06) Close - an appeal

This week on Season 2, Episode 1 of What's Happening in Myanmar, junta chief Min Aung Hlaing becomes president to no one's surprise, drawing global condemnation while allies like China and Russia offered congratulations. Activists file a genocide case in Indonesia and a class action suit against Telenor. Amid a severe fuel crisis, the junta forms a new cabinet, while fears of new cyber scam hubs emerge.
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Timecodes—
(00:00) Opening
(0:19) The 'new' government
(3:53) Rohingya legal case
(4:36) Deepening fuel crisis
(6:32) Legal action against Telenor 
(7:29) Scam centres reemerge
(8:18) Close

This fortnight on episode 67 of What's Happening in Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing takes the presidency, a fuel crisis hits the petrol pumps in reaction to the widening war in the Middle East, forced conscription, a new council for federal democracy is launched and we look at the plight of the Rohingya. 
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Timecodes—
(00:00) Opening
(1:42) Election of MAH as president 
(2:53) The fuel crisis
(6:19) Six groups launch council for federal democracy push
(7:09)Forced conscription into resistance forces
(7:37)Plight of Rohingya refugees
(8:53) Close
Referenced this episode:
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/rakhine-relapse-yaba-returns-to-wartorn-communities-in-western-myanmar/
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/war-is-turning-rakhine-state-into-a-mine-field/
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/down-and-out-in-sagaing-idps-struggle-to-survive-in-central-myanmar/