In this week's episode of The Irrawaddy Newscast we cover a new report on the regime’s loss of territory in southeastern Myanmar. And fighting is raging in Kachin State. We hear why the military has decided to attack. Plus, we have a story about the destruction of religious buildings in this conflict, a rundown of this week’s headlines and the latest news from the ‘War Against the Junta.’

// Show Notes:

// Contact the show: justin.higginbottom@irrawaddy.org

// Help The Irrawaddy report the truth from Myanmar
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// Karen Peace Support Network: A Shifting Power Balance
https://www.karenpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Shifting-Power-Balance-Eng-Sept-2023.pdf

// Kachinland Research Centre
https://kachinlandrc.org/

// Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma)
https://aappb.org/

// Stories mentioned in this episode:

// Junta Boss Issues Warning as Corruption Scandal Engulfs Myanmar Regime
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/junta-boss-issues-warning-as-corruption-scandal-engulfs-myanmar-regime.html

// Myanmar Coup Leader Fires Two Members of Junta’s Highest Body for Corruption
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/analysis/myanmar-coup-leader-fires-two-members-of-juntas-highest-body-for-corruption.html

// Notorious Deputy Commerce Minister Purged in Myanmar Junta Price Probe
https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/notorious-deputy-commerce-minister-purged-in-myanmar-junta-price-probe.html

// Junta Makes Second Grab at ‘Empty’ Wallets of Myanmar Migrant Workers
https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/junta-makes-second-grab-at-empty-wallets-of-myanmar-migrant-workers.html

// Myanmar Political Prisoner, 21, Dies of Heart Attack in Yangon’s Insein Prison
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-political-prisoner-21-dies-of-heart-attack-in-yangons-insein-prison.html

// Myanmar Junta Massacres Sagaing Resistance Fighters
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-massacres-sagaing-resistance-fighters.html

// Myanmar Resistance Groups Occupy Military Intelligence Office in Jade Hub
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-resistance-groups-occupy-military-intelligence-office-in-jade-hub.html

// Myanmar Junta Ramped Up Mass Killings, Air Strikes in Past Year: UN
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/myanmar-junta-ramped-up-mass-killings-air-strikes-in-past-year-un.html

// Resistance Forces Seize Myanmar Junta Outpost in Mandalay’s Mogoke
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/resistance-forces-seize-myanmar-junta-outpost-in-mandalays-mogoke.html

// Five Myanmar Junta Soldiers Killed in Bank Ambush: Ye Urban Guerrillas
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/five-myanmar-junta-soldiers-killed-in-bank-ambush-ye-urban-guerrillas.html

// Central Myanmar sees 324 Percent Increase in Air Strikes: UN
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/central-myanmar-sees-324-percent-increase-in-air-strikes-un.html

// Myanmar Junta Shelling Injures At Least 19 Children
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-shelling-injures-at-least-19-children.html

Episode 33: Junta Losses in Kayin/Conflict in Kachin/Churches Under Fire in Chinland

A transmission of conflict and culture from inside and outside Myanmar.