Sittwe Set On & the Military Upgrades Drones

With Ko Kyaw Naing, an employee since 2012 of a civil society organization in Rakhine State, and also another unnamed guest, a Rohingya youth living in Sittwe. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military stocks drones in Karen State, more chemical weapons accusations, some scam workers go free, and we speak about the impending attack on the Rakhine State capital, Sittwe. 

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Timecodes—

1m33s :: Weekly news digest5m07s :: With Ko Kyaw Naing, the Arakan Army’s attack on Sittwe11m01s :: AA administration18m11s :: With a Rohingya youth, on the ground in Sittwe34m41s :: Close

Our guests—

Ko Kyaw Naing, an employee since 2012 of a civil society organization in Rakhine State. Our second guest is an unnamed Rohingya youth, currently living in Sittwe, who declined to use a pseudonym.

There are no links or publications from our listeners this week, but we do refer to the Frontier feature from last year, No smoke without fire? Chemical weapons accusations continue. And Frontier’s other free content this week:

Rethinking ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus

Killing creativity: The junta’s cultural crusade

Severed lifelines: Tanintharyi communities starved of food and medicine