Panic for Fuel & Fighting for Falam

Panic for Fuel & Fighting for Falam

With Lorcan Lovett, independent journalist and Substack writer, with bylines in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, the Sunday Times and more. This week on What's Happening in Myanmar, conscripts are barred from monasteries, fuel dries up at key border towns, and we discuss the final fight in the Chin National Defense Force push for Falam, in Chin State.

Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me

Timecodes—

0m54s :: Weekly news digest
8m14s :: With Lorcan Lovett, fighting in Falam
15m18s :: Reinforcements
18m35s :: Freedom of movement
24m08s :: Civilian and rebel life
28m40s :: Chin resistance schism
37m54s :: Close

Our guest—

Lorcan Lovett, an independent journalist and Substack writer.

Lorcan's Substack, "On Myanmar"

His first Chin State dispatch: "They plucked out his eye with a motorbike key … I wanted to kill them"

And—

The Institute of Chin Affairs report referred to in this podcast can be found here.

For more context on the Chin resistance split, check out this Frontier feature from last year.

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