With Ah Oo, member of the secretariat of the Kawthoolei Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation Committee (KNRECC), and Paul Sein Twa, co-founder and executive director of the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network and also a member of the KNRECC. This week on episode 56 of What's Happening in Myanmar, election pressures and protests intensify, battles rage in and around Mogok, the regime's scam crackdown widens, and we discuss the new Kawthoolei Climate Action Plan.

Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me

 

Timecodes—

 (00:00 ) Opening

(01:21 ) Fighting in Mogok

(03:16 ) Military scam crackdowns

(05:27 ) Elections pressure and detentions

(10:09 ) With Ah Oo & Paun Sein Twa, K-CAP

(23:22 ) A climate plan in a conflict zone

(28:52 ) Other EAOs and K-CAP

(36:18 ) Future of K-CAP

(44:32 ) Close

 

Our guests—

Ah Oo, member of the secretariat of the Kawthoolei Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation Committee (KNRECC).

Paul Sein Twa, co-founder and executive director of the Karen Environmental and Social Action Network and also part of KNRECC.

Paul Sein Twa's Goldman Prize

Kawthoolei Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation Committee

 

New original content on the Frontier website:

Justice in limbo: NUG stalls probe into civilian deaths

 

Further referenced this episode:

Junta officials and troops pressure Mandalay residents to vote in door-to-door intimidation campaign