This is popular front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

For this episode we're speaking to journalist Iman Fett.

She's going to be speaking to us about the ongoing military coup in Myanmar and the clashes that have broken out as a result of that.

She's been covering the conflict from the ground from day one.

She knows what she's talking about. The military has killed several people now. Clashes are continuing and most people

seem to be ignoring the coup. It's a very interesting situation. If you like what we're doing

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This thing has been going on for a little while now since the military coup.

Maybe if you could just go back to the start and explain what actually happened there

before we talk about the protests. Why was there a military coup? How did it go down? You know?

It's a little bit difficult to remember a time before the coup.

Like it's kind of all just like a melded, ambiguous time.

Yeah, and so we're 32 days in so just over a month. But yeah,

basically the lead-up to the coup was you know pretty uneventful.

Myanmar had its election in 2020, November, 2020,

just a couple days after the US election, actually.

And that was fairly successful. Obviously, you know, there are issues of

further suppression, voter intimidation, as there are in a lot of other places that are still

transitioning into democracy. Obviously quite a large number of ethnic minorities

especially the Rohingya were disenfranchised because of laws in Myanmar that really

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