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Military's General Elections Confirmed
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With Nicholas Coppel, former Australian ambassador to Myanmar and president of the Australia Myanmar Institute. This week on episode 42 of What's Happening in Myanmar, the military captures two mines from resistance forces, the historic Gokteik viaduct sustains major damage, and we discuss the consequences of the military's planned elections starting on December 28.
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Timecodes—
01m31s :: Conflict updates
05m16s :: With Nicholas Copperl, the military elections
25m25s :: Is it all about Min Aung Hlaing?
33m43s :: The military's plans post-election
38m04s :: Close
Our guests—
Nicholas Coppel, former Australian ambassador to Myanmar from 2015 to 2018, honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne, and president of the Australia Myanmar Institute.
His latest publication: Media weaponisation in Myanmar and the world's relative indifference to its crisis