TLRH | A Ticking Bomb: Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Dec 11, 2020 · 1h 5m

Friday, 27 November 2020, 12 – 1pm A public lecture by Dr Rahul Mishra (University of Malaya) organised by the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies and hosted by Trinity Long Room Hub. After decades of oppressive rule by the military junta, Myanmar (Burma) made a transition to democracy in 2015. The international community and the people of Myanmar had pinned their hopes on Aung San Suu Kyi, a noble laureate and the icon of decades-old democratic struggle in Myanmar, as the leader of a ‘New Myanmar’. With the landslide election victory of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), it was…