Burma's History & Rohingya Tragedy w/ Carlos Sardiña Galache
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on journalist Carlos Sardiña Galache to discuss the history of Burma/Myanmar and the tragedy of the Rohingya people. Given the recent coup and subsequent violence perpetuated against protestors, we feel that this is a vitally important interview to orient the events within the overall flow of Burmese History.
Carlos Sardiña Galache is the author of The Burmese Labyrinth: A History of the Rohingya Tragedy (Verso Books, https://www.versobooks.com/books/3152-the-burmese-labyrinth). He has also published articles in a variety of outlets focusing on Myanmar, including New Left Review, Jacobin, Time Magazine, the Intercept, and the Asia Times. All of his articles can be found on his website (http://carlossardina.pressfolios.com/) You can follow him on twitter @CSGalache.
Henry has also conducted two interviews with Carlos on the David Feldman Show, focusing on the recent events in Myanmar. You can find those interviews (which should make good supplementary material) here:
Interview 1 (starts at 4:04:30): https://youtu.be/jwgygIWJyV0?t=14670
Interview 2 (starts at 1:16:40): https://youtu.be/-1n4KjXIeHU?t=4600
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host, |
| 0:39.4 | Henry Huckimacki, joined by my co-hosts, as always, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and |
| 0:44.5 | director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are |
| 0:49.3 | you doing today? I'm well, Henry. Great to be with you. It's always nice to see you. And I'm also joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How are you on this fine early morning recording? |
| 1:03.5 | Hello. Yeah, I'm doing great. excited for this conversation. Yeah, it's going to be a great one and very timely as well. So our guest today is going to be Carlos Sardinia Galache, who's the author of the Burmese |
| 1:14.5 | labyrinth, the history of the Rohingya tragedy out from Verso. |
| 1:18.1 | Highly recommend everybody picking it up. |
| 1:20.8 | Now, of course, this is timely because of recent events in Myanmar, where there has been a military |
| 1:26.9 | coup and protesters are being killed by the dozens |
| 1:30.6 | or even the hundreds now. We're recording this on March 29th. Last Wednesday, 114 protesters were |
| 1:38.2 | killed in one day alone in Myanmar by the military coup government. And so understanding the past, understanding the history |
| 1:47.9 | of Burma is very important to understanding the dynamics that are at play right now. And only by |
| 1:55.0 | understanding the history, are we really able to get a full picture of what's going on now, |
| 1:59.8 | which is why I'm recommending to everyone to buy |
| 2:02.3 | the Burmese Labyrinth and read it because I know I speak for myself when I say before I read the book, |
| 2:10.3 | my understanding of Burma slash Myanmar's history was limited to, well, at one point they were |
| 2:17.3 | colonized by the British, |
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