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