Billy Ford on Myanmar’s Resistance Movement

January 13, 2022 00:10:08
Billy Ford on Myanmar’s Resistance Movement
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Billy Ford on Myanmar’s Resistance Movement

Jan 13 2022 | 00:10:08

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Show Notes

Despite the military junta’s imprisonment of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, USIP’s Billy Ford says there’s an opening for more inclusive narratives within the resistance movement — and if the movement can “unify around those [narratives] … it could come together and potentially defeat this regime.”

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