Burma 1945-2018: money, legacies & the Rohingya (Part 2), with Thant Myint-U

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Voicemails from History

Mujda Ameen

13 episodes

3 days ago

History is created using the evidence that people leave behind, sometimes in documents and photo albums, other times on scraps and footsteps here and there. Each episode will feature a voicemail, an extract from the book I’m reading: it could be a speech, an interpretation, a conversation. Join me, a graduate and teacher of history, as I share and review books covering a range of historical events, people and memories. I’ll be offering my commentary and perspective to create a conversation about the issues and values which affect us in the present.

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Burma 1945-2018: money, legacies & the Rohingya (Part 2), with Thant Myint-U

Voicemails from History

53 minutes 30 seconds

4 years ago

Burma 1945-2018: money, legacies & the Rohingya (Part 2), with Thant Myint-U

Today's voicemail is taken from page 188, The Hidden History of Burma, A Crisis of Race and Capitalism, by Thant Myint-U.

Timestamps (as I know this episode is longer than usual!)

Intro & background: until 10:30

Burma's economy: 11:00

Aung San Suu Kyi: 23:58

Rohingya and the state of Arakan: 31:25

In part 2 of this episode, I try to understand some of the main political and economic developments of the newly independent country in the 20th and 21st century. There's the military dictatorship and how it tried to rule, the growth of illicit drugs and insurgent groups, how Aung San Suu Kyi fits into Burma’s narrative, and the steady slow burn of the Rohingya crisis and contested genocide.

Sidenotes: I use the word Arakan, as does the author, for historical purposes, but in the present the state is known as Rakhine. Same goes for Rangoon/Yangon. Also, I realised much later after recording that I lumped in Tony Blair as being a "celebrity" with the likes of McKellen and Clooney - slight error there on my part!

Episode cover art: Deutsche Welle (DW)