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Myanmar artist and activist Chuu Wai Nyein joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss her work. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGvcfWbFM_wKFVb_QfGnoL1jdKANTR5Ah].

Myanmar’s Rohingya have marked eight years since the military launched a brutal “clearance operation” in northern Rakhine State. Homes were burned down, women were raped, and thousands were killed by soldiers.The date is now commemorated each year as Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on Aug. 25, 2017. Over 700,000 Rohingya had fled across the border into Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya had already fled previous military assaults. The United Nations called it a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. The United States and many other western countries have labelled it a genocide. Watch the report on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGvcfWbFM_wKFVb_QfGnoL1jdKANTR5Ah].

The regime’s Union Election Commission (UEC) announced on Monday that its general elections will begin on Dec. 28, with specific dates for polls in January 2026 to be announced later. Nay Phone Latt, the National Unity Government (NUG) Prime Minister’s Office spokesperson, spoke to DVB about the regime elections on Aug. 17. Richard Horsey, the senior advisor on Myanmar for the International Crisis Group, spoke to DVB on Aug. 13. Read more about the regime's roadmap to hold polls nationwide into 2026 [https://english.dvb.no/union-election-commission-sets-date-for-voting-to-begin-and-outlines-roadmap-for-polls-nationwide/]. Stay tuned to DVB English News for more ⁠⁠⁠⁠Newscasts⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGvcfWbFM_wJvs4n2iTFyhbn-VgzCp1nT]. We're available wherever you get ⁠⁠⁠⁠podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/dvbenglish]. Follow or ⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠ [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdI0UA27karDChnhnboHmqQ].

Alan Clements has spent over 40 years advocating for non-violent resistance to military dictatorship in Myanmar. He speaks to Mon Mon Myat about his latest book "Conversation with a dictator: A challenge to the authoritarian assault" based on a fictional conversation he had with Myanmar Senior General, and 2021 military coup leader, Min Aung Hlaing. Listen to DVB English News on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGvcfWbFM_wKFVb_QfGnoL1jdKANTR5Ah].

Tom Andrews has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar since 2020, working to document and expose human rights violations. Since the 2021 military coup, Andrews has called for more targeted sanctions against the regime in Naypyidaw and monitors its attempts to evade these sanctions. Watch the Newsroom interview with Tom Andrews on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGvcfWbFM_wKFVb_QfGnoL1jdKANTR5Ah].