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Executions in Myanmar with Ali Fowle
Publisher |
Time To Say Goodbye
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Politics
Publication Date |
Aug 03, 2022
Episode Duration |
01:07:36

Hello from Tammy’s undisclosed location! 

The hosts start with a brief discussion of Leanna Louie, a law-and-order Democrat running for District 4 Supervisor in SF. What might she represent for the future of Asian-American politics? 

Then Jay and Tammy are joined by investigative journalist Ali Fowle to discuss Myanmar. The country’s military regime recently killed four prisoners, including well known pro-democracy activists zeya-thaw-dead.html">Phyo Zeya Thaw and now.org/en/news/myanmar-junta-executes-four-political-prisoners">Ko Jimmy. These judicial is-the-country-of-great-deaths.html">executions, the first since the 1980s, shocked even those inside Myanmar, where extrajudicial murders and widespread arrests have been 05172022210115.html">commonplace since the February 2021 military coup. 

Ali describes her experience reporting from Myanmar in the decade leading up to the coup, the culture of fear and violence used to suppress last year’s popular uprising, and what the resistance movement looks like today. We ask why the coup in Myanmar has not broken through internationally in the way Russia’s assault on Ukraine has, and what message the recent executions are meant to send. 

Be sure to watch the short documentary Ali produced last year with Al Jazeera (warning: graphic content), and give a listen to Phyo Zeya Thaw’s music

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