Inside the rebel fight for Myanmar
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A conscription campaign by Myanmar’s military appears to be backfiring, with the country’s youth deciding they’d rather fight against it. Al Jazeera goes inside the country to speak to rebel groups.
In this episode:
- Tony Cheng (@TLCBkk), Al Jazeera English Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan and David Enders, with Duha Mosaad, Manahil Naveed and host Kevin Hirten, in for Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, as tens of thousands of refugees continue to flee Myanmar. |
| 0:16.0 | The United Nations says about 45,000 Rohingya have been forced from their homes. |
| 0:21.5 | I talked to one of Al Jazeera's correspondents who found his way inside Myanmar recently. |
| 0:26.5 | Tony Chang has traveled to the front lines in Cayenne State, and he's spoken to one of the rebel commanders. |
| 0:32.8 | And Tony says there's something we all should know about Myanmar's ongoing civil war. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm Kevin Horton and this is The Take. |
| 0:46.3 | So is this the best way to get around? |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, definitely. Beets the traffic. |
| 0:55.8 | Like three times as fast as a car. |
| 1:00.0 | Rainy season on the back of a motorbike, huh? |
| 1:02.6 | What happens? |
| 1:03.9 | You just get soaked, like completely soaked. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm here with Tony Chang, Al Jazeera correspondent in Bangkok, |
| 1:16.6 | racing around with him as he meets with people, meets with sources. |
| 1:21.6 | I heard there's a lot of displaced people. |
| 1:25.6 | I know there's a lot of refugees because of the civil war going on next door. |
| 1:30.2 | Next door is Myanmar, where Tony's just returned from. |
| 1:34.2 | He covers it from his base here in Thailand. |
| 1:37.5 | Since 2021, Myanmar's been mired in civil war. |
| 1:42.6 | After nearly a decade sharing power with civilians, |
| 1:46.0 | Myanmar's military staged a coup, |
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