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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: The Crisis in Myanmar Takes a Turn for the Worse
Description: In lay July, the military Junta in Myanmar carried out its first executions in decades. Four activists were killed, including very prominant pro-democracy leaders. The military carried out these executions despite widespread international and regional pressure. These executions come a year and a half after the February 1 2021 coup that ended Myanmar's experiment in democracy. The military has imprisoned much of the civilian political leadership of the country, including the country's de-facto civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The February Coup was met by widespread civil disobedience and, eventually armed resistance. Today, Myanmar is in the mi...