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Podcast: Insight Myanmar
Episode: When Spiders Unite
Description: Episode #444: After more than 40 years of Burma advocacy, Larry Dohrs sheds light on the strategies that have exposed corporate and military abuses in the country, inspired meaningful action, and exacted costs from multiple incarnations of the junta. Inspired by his parentsâ travels in the 1960s, he first visited Burma in 1982 and was captivated, with lifelong consequences. When he tried to return in 1988, however, the 8888 uprising and bloody crackdown intervened. âI was not too politically focused â history and culture and economics were more what I was interested in,â Dohrssays. âIn subsequent years it was people looking at it as a normal country, a norm...