Atrocities in Myanmar

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Two months ago, Myanmar’s military carried out a coup, deposing the country’s elected civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and closing the curtains on a five-year experiment with democracy. 

Since then, the Burmese people have expressed their discontent through protest and ...

It's been a year since Myanmar's violent military junta overthrew the country's democratic experiment and seized power in a coup. With thousands of civilians imprisoned or killed, what has the past year in the country looked like?

WARNING: some listeners may find some of ...

Warning: this episode contains descriptions of injuries.

Myanmar is home to one of the deadliest, most intractable civil wars on the planet. But something new is happening. Unusual numbers of young people from the cities, including students, poets and baristas, ha ...

It’s been three years since Myanmar’s military coup when the army took control of the country, a decade after agreeing to hand power to a civilian government. A civil war broke out after the after the military used lethal force to put down mass protests in the weeks after the cou ...  Show more