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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.

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. Stay tuned to DVB English News for more ⁠⁠⁠⁠Newscasts⁠⁠⁠⁠. We're available wherever you get ⁠⁠⁠⁠podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow or ⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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.

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.

The military regime, which seized power in Myanmar during the coup on Feb. 1, 2021, announced elections will begin in December. Over four months since a devastating earthquake and four years since the 2021 coup, the humanitarian situation in Myanmar gets worse by the day. The regime in Naypyidaw focuses its efforts on an election later this year while 6.3 million people are still in urgent need of aid. Watch on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Find us on X, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads & TikTok, Listen on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, ⁠or ⁠⁠⁠⁠wherever you get podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Benedict Rogers, a British human rights activist and journalist, was recently-appointed as the new senior director at Fortify Rights. He joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss his new role and how international justice and accountability can be pursued in Myanmar. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, ⁠or wherever you get podcasts⁠.

Khin Ohmar is a Myanmar human rights activist who was involved in organizing the 1988 nationwide pro-democracy uprising. She is also the founder and chairperson of human rights organization Progressive Voice. Over the last two decades, Ohmar has been advocating for democracy in Myanmar at the regional and international levels. This is Part 2 of our DVB English News interview with Khin Ohmar. ⁠Watch DVB English News on YouTube or Spotify⁠. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever pods are cast.

Khin Ohmar is a Myanmar human rights activist who was involved in organizing the 1988 nationwide pro-democracy uprising. She is also the founder and chairperson of Progressive Voice, a Myanmar human rights organization. Over the last two decades, Ohmar has been advocating for democracy in Myanmar at the regional and international levels. This is Part 1 of our DVB English News interview with Khin Ohmar. Tune-in again next Friday for Part 2. Watch DVB English News on YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever pods are cast.

Trish is a Michelin-trained chef and the founder of Bamama Cooks, a food initiative which creates community for Myanmar exiles and the diaspora in Thailand. Check out our previous report for DW called The Burmese Chef Using Food to Create Community. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.

On March 28, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake killed at least 4,520 people and injured over 11,000, according to DVB data. Three months later, and over 6 million people remain in urgent need of assistance, as the existing crises of conflict and displacement worsens. Watch and subscribe on DVB English News YouTube. Find us on X, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads & TikTok, Follow us on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or ⁠⁠⁠⁠wherever you get podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Members of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which was ousted from government in the 2021 military coup, have demanded the release of Aung San Suu Kyi on her 80th birthday. The NLD has been disbanded by the regime in Naypyidaw with its members either jailed, underground, or in exile. Watch Calls to free Aung San Suu Kyi on DVB English News YouTube. Find DVB English News on X, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads & TikTok, Follow us on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or ⁠⁠⁠wherever you get podcasts⁠⁠⁠.

Youth Line podcast host Pyartho brings us a story about a family who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) after the 2021 military coup and now live in exile in neighbouring Thailand. Stay tuned to Youth Line podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Find DVB English News on X, Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Threads & TikTok, Subscribe on YouTube. Follow us on YouTube Music, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or ⁠⁠wherever you get podcasts⁠⁠.

This episode of Straight Talk Southeast Asia Podcast is appearing in the DVB English News feed this week since it features an interview with DVB Chief Editor Aye Chan Naing. It has been edited for brevity. Straight Talk Southeast Asia host Bridget Welsh interviews Aye Chan Naing about the situation in Myanmar since the earthquake on March 28, and the difficulties exile media is facing after funding cuts by the U.S. government.

It has been two months since a post-quake ceasefire was announced by the Brotherhood Alliance and the National Unity Government (NUG) in order to allow humanitarian assistance to reach those in need following a devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Only the Brotherhood Alliance extended the truce until May 31. A ceasefire was also announced by the military regime April 2-30, which it then renewed from May 6-31. But DVB has documented 669 attacks carried out by regime forces since then with a total 544 killed and 1,148 injured from March 28 to May 28. Stay tuned to DVB English News for more ⁠⁠⁠Newscasts⁠⁠⁠. We're available wherever you get ⁠⁠⁠podcasts⁠⁠⁠. Follow or ⁠⁠⁠subscribe⁠⁠⁠.

James Rodehaver is the chief of Myanmar team at the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). He sits down with the DVB Newsroom to discuss how the U.N. documents human rights violations and crimes committed by the military in Myanmar. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, ⁠or wherever you get podcasts⁠.

Aung Naing Soe, a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Myanmar, joins the DVB Newsroom to discuss the new book he co-authored with Joe Freeman called Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar's military. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.

Debbie Stothard is a human rights activist from Malaysia and the founder-coordinator of ALTSEAN-Burma, a network of groups based in the regional bloc Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) supporting democracy and human rights in Myanmar for the last 30 years. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, ⁠⁠⁠or wherever you get podcasts⁠⁠⁠.

It has been one month since the March 28 earthquake struck central Myanmar. But for many survivors, little to no help has arrived. At least 4,461 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of collapsed buildings and 11,366 have been injured, according to DVB data. Watch our TV report "One month since the devastating Myanmar earthquake" on DVB English News YouTube. Listen to it as audio on Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.

This week, we are handing our feed over to Burma Podcast Network and an interview done by Nyein Chan May with Christopher Wohnig, a lawyer in Germany working on political asylum law. Nyein Chan May is an intersectional feminist, a pro-democracy activist, a podcaster, and the co-founder of German Solidarity with Myanmar. Watch the DVB Newsroom interview with Nyein Chan May on building solidarity for Myanmar democracy in Europe. DVB English News is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.

Nyein Chan May is an intersectional feminist, a pro-democracy activist, a podcaster, and the co-founder of German Solidarity with Myanmar, based in Germany. She joins DVB Newsroom to discuss her work in Europe building solidarity for Myanmar's democracy movement since the 2021 military coup. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, ⁠⁠or wherever you get podcasts⁠⁠.