Panic for Fuel & Fighting for Falam

With Lorcan Lovett, independent journalist and Substack writer, with bylines in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, the Sunday Times and more. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, conscripts are barred from monasteries, fuel dries up at key border towns, and we discuss the final fight in the Chin National Defense Force push for Falam, in Chin State.  

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Timecodes—

0m54s :: Weekly news digest8m14s :: With Lorcan Lovett, fighting in Falam15m18s :: Reinforcements18m35s :: Freedom of movement24m08s :: Civilian and rebel life28m40s :: Chin resistance schism37m54s :: Close 

Our guest—

Lorcan Lovett, an independent journalist and Substack writer.

Lorcan’s Substack, “On Myanmar”

His first Chin State dispatch: “They plucked out his eye with a motorbike key … I wanted to kill them”

And—

The Institute of Chin Affairs report referred to in this podcast can be found here.

For more context on the Chin resistance split, check out this Frontier feature from last year.