Child Soldiers in the Spotlight
Description
With Shayna Bauchner, Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, and Thiri, an independent researcher. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, Belarus support for the Myanmar air force is exposed, another jet goes down, and we discuss the surge in the use of child soldiers by the State Administration Council.
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Timecodes—
01m28s :: Belarus helps Myanmar air force
03m04s :: Another jet down
04m30s :: With Shayna Bauchner and Thiri, child soldiers in the military
25m01s :: Child soldiers resisting the military
31m31s :: Close
Our guests—
Shayna Bauchner, Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch
Thiri, an independent researcher working with the same organisation
HRW Myanmar: Stop Recruitment, Use of Child Soldiers
Other reports mentioned in this episode:
ကန်ဒေါင့်ရဲစခန်းတိုက်ပွဲမှာ စစ်မှုထမ်းကလေးစစ်သားတစ်ဦး ဖမ်းမိ
UN Secretary General’s Annual Report on Children and Armed Conflict
Junta dragnet: More youth abducted in desperate conscription drive
The war from the sky: How drone warfare is shaping the conflict in Myanmar
United States
