What's Happening in Myanmar10 Loka 2025

Thadingyut Massacre

With Amaël Vier, election consultant and analyst, and Tharindu Abeyrathna, senior program officer for campaign and advocacy at the Asian Network for Free Elections. This week on episode 48 of What's Happening in Myanmar, the military massacres civilians at a Buddhist holiday commemoration, the Union Election Commission posts problematic voter lists, and we discuss the new ANFREL assessment report on the military's planned elections.

Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me

Timecodes—

01m00s :: Announcement of new CEO
01m48s :: Thadingyut massacre
03m31s :: Sagaing & KIA conflict updates
04m27s :: Election news
06m15s :: With Tharindu & Amaël, new ANFREL election report
27m13s :: India as an election observer
31m08s :: ASEAN's response to elections
38m16s :: Close

Our guests—

Amaël Vier, election consultant and analyst

Tharindu Abeyrathna, senior program officer for campaign and advocacy at the Asian Network for Free Elections

New original content on the Frontier website:

Working for peanuts: The precarious lives of women in central Myanmar
'Nothing you can do': Spectre of starvation haunts Rakhine
Frontier appoints new CEO, as founder bows out

Further referenced this episode:

ANFREL: Myanmar Junta's Planned Elections: Falling Short of Democratic Legitimacy

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