PREVIEW: Radio War Nerd #101—Rohingya, Myanmar & The Empire

Guest: Kayleigh Long, journalist For non-subscribers, here is a 25+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode 101 with Myanmar-based journalist Kayleigh Long on the the Rohingya crisis and the grim history and politics of the region. The story we're being told is that Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi isn't the peaceful Buddhist that the West made her out to be, and the Rohingya mass expulsions suddenly just happened without context. We look into the brutal British legacy in Burma (Myanmar), the history of ethnic tensions in the part of the Empire where today Rakhine death squads are expelling Rohingya, the mirror Chittagong Hills Tract conflict story ignored by our media, and the CIA-backed Chinese Nationalist KMT army that spent years in northeast Burma running a heroin narco-state...Would you like to know more? Subscribe to Radio War Nerd here on our patreon page, to listen to the entire episode 101 and all previous locked episodes. Depending on your pledge, you can also get our downloadable RSS feed for your podcast app, the Radio War Nerd Newsletter, Show Notes and more...