Myanmar's Long, Long, Long Civil War

Podcast: History As It Happens · Martin Di Caro

Opublikowano: 2026-08-25

Subscribe today for ad-free listening, early access, and all of our bonus content. Myanmar is not a country. It is a place of endless violence and ethnic strife, with its 50 million people trapped in another civil war, now in its fifth year, with no end in sight. Since its independence from Great Britain after the Second World War, Burma (now Myanmar) has been ruled mostly by military juntas. Every generation or so, a better future has seemed possible, but democracy and economic prosperity have never been allowed to blossom. Our guest is historian Maitrii Aung-Thwin...