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.

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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 fled to neighbouring Thailand three years later, beginning their lives in exile following the enforcement of military conscription in February 2024. Stay tuned to Youth Line podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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