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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

The Troubled Border of Myanmar, Chapter Two: Slavery in the Information Age

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.310.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Modern-day Myanmar remains home to a unique cultural heritage and stunning natural beauty -- yet today it's also home to a wide range of deeply disturbing conspiracies and crimes. In part two of this special two-part series, Ben and Matt explore the booming criminal industries of the country - especially entire communities dedicated to human trafficking and online scams.

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0:00.0

From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

0:06.8

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

0:12.1

A production of IHeart Radio. Hello, welcome back to the show.

0:29.1

My name is Matt.

0:30.2

Our colleague Gnall is adventuring still.

0:33.1

But we'll return soon.

0:35.0

They call me Ben.

0:36.2

We're joined as always with our super producer, Dylan the Tennessee pal Fagan.

0:40.7

Most importantly, you are you, you are here.

0:44.0

That makes this, the stuff they don't want you to know,

0:47.5

a bit of a special case, fellow conspiracy realist.

0:50.6

This is part two of a two-part series on the troubled border of Myanmar.

0:57.0

And honestly, Matt, troubled is vastly understating the case.

1:03.0

Yeah. There's so many issues here that we've been going over thus far and we're about to get into a lot more of them.

1:09.1

And I'm just looking at some of the news reporting just over this year since April with the Civil War stuff that's been going on and then connecting it to the powerful forces that are able to operate.

1:23.0

Some of the military forces as well as some of the resistance forces that are out there that are battling each other all across Myanmar, especially near the borders. And a lot of that money

1:32.9

that's funding this stuff is coming from the crime. A hundred percent. We also know that

1:38.6

people who are being enslaved in these certain camps that we're going to talk about.

1:44.5

We know they're coming from around the world.

1:47.3

This is an international conspiracy.

1:50.6

So please, please, please tune into episode one of this series, the first part to get a handle on what we're talking about.

1:58.6

And now, without further ado, part two of the troubled border of Myanmar.

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