Military 'Election' Nears Conclusion

With Ben Dunant, former editor-in-chief of Frontier Myanmar, independent journalist, and election observer at multiple missions for the Carter Centre. This week on episode 61 of What's Happening in Myanmar, resistance groups across the Dry Zone disturb polls and attack multiple positions during the second phase of voting in the military's election, politician Thet Thet Khaing is detained and accused of unauthorized meetings with foreign embassy staff, and we discuss the military's election on the ground in Yangon.

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Timecodes—

(00:00) Opening

(01:39) Thet Thet Khaing detained

(02:42) Second phase over

(03:05) Electoral violence over second phase

(05:05) With Ben Dunant, reporting on the elections in Yangon

(08:43) Locations and opportunities to observes

(15:08) Security and accreditation to report

(18:41) Voter attitudes

(30:18) Election results

(41:29) Close

Our guests—

Ben Dunant, former editor-in-chief of Frontier Myanmar, and independent journalist

New original content from Frontier this week:

Is Min Aung Hlaing looking over both shoulders?
Costs of copper: Residents near mines suffer under junta's heavy hand

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VIDEO: Confronting the man who followed the ABC while reporting on Myanmar's elections

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