Left Behind

Insight Myanmar · Apr 2, 2026 · 1h 29m

Episode #512: “The overall consequences are so bad that I myself urged the Norwegian government to stop some of this.”

Hanne Sophie Greve, a Norwegian judge and long-time human rights jurist, argues that Telenor’s conduct in Myanmar created foreseeable and preventable pathways to severe human rights harm, but existing legal systems struggle to respond proportionately. She frames the case as both a corporate failure and a test of how Norway—a state that portrays itself as committed to democracy and human rights—handles the risks created when a majority state-owned company operates in a fragile…