With Andrew Nachemson, former managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, and a freelance journalist. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military signs investment deals and signals more to come, as fresh sanctions and expropriations target the regime and its cronies. Andy and I speak about the unique political and conflict context in Mon State, through the lens of the New Mon State Party and its revolutionary faction, the New Mon State Party-Anti Dictatorship.
Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me
Timecodes—
1m01s :: Weekly news digest
6m43s :: With Andrew Nachmeson, the New Mon State Party-AD
14m36s :: Territory under the NMSP
23m38s :: The NMSP and drones, threats to civilians
39m33s :: Close
Our guest—
Andrew Nachemson, former Managing Editor of Frontier, and a freelance journalist.
Andy has many publications available via Google, and the article we discuss will be dropping on Frontier’s website next week. But for more context, check out his January dispatch from Karen State for Al Jazeera. And for more information on this week’s sanctions, see the Justice for Myanmar press releases about Canada and Switzerland.
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