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Global News Podcast

Myanmar junta recruits Rohingyas to fight rebels

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It comes despite the group not being recognised as legal residents of Myanmar. Also: We return to the Ukrainian town of Bucha two years after a massacre by Russian troops, Boeing plane forced to land as engine cover falls off and Back to Black stars defend Amy Winehouse biopic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.0

I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 8th of April,

0:09.0

these are our main stories.

0:10.0

The military in Myanmar has begun calling up Rohingya Muslims to fight for the army despite

0:15.3

subjecting them to years of persecution. More than 10,000 homes are underwater in Russia as flooding

0:21.6

from the Ural Mountains spreads and Boeing faces more

0:25.2

problems as a part from one of its planes falls off mid-flight. Also in this

0:31.5

podcast eBay says it'll drop fees for people selling old clothes to stop

0:36.0

them going to landfill and for me really the villains of the film it's addiction and

0:40.8

paparazzi. You go back to her and I go back to black.

0:51.0

The movie the Rohingya people of Western Myanmar suffered unspeakable massacres.

1:04.3

The exact death toll isn't known, but it's been estimated that the Myanmar army probably

1:08.7

murdered more than 25,000 people, prompting more than a million others to flee the country into neighbouring Bangladesh.

1:16.3

The Rohingya had long suffered discrimination and were never given citizenship of Myanmar,

1:21.0

although most had lived there for generations.

1:23.0

But despite not being citizens, the BBC has found that hundreds of Rohingya have now been

1:27.7

conscripted to fight for Myanmar's army.

1:30.8

The investigation was carried out by our Southeast Asia correspondent Jonathan Head.

1:35.0

It looks like this is a systematic attempt to fill the ranks that have been depleted across Myanmar as the army has been driven back and suffered defeat after defeat

1:43.6

lots of surrenders lots of soldiers killed they're really struggling they've been

1:47.6

forced conscription across the country nobody ever thought that they would

1:51.4

bring in the rehangers the The Rohingyas are viewed with

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