# The Future of Mogok & Murmurings on Myitsone

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Published: 2025-11-07T04:48:00+00:00
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With Laur Kiik, Burma studies researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo. This week on episode 52 of What's Happening in Myanmar , the military detains civilians for supposedly criticising its so-called elections, the fallout from demolitions at KK Park scam compound increases, and we discuss livelihoods at the Myitsone confluence in Kachin State—including the likelihood of the Myitsone dam hydropower project being resumed. Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me Timecodes— (00:00) Opening (01:02) KK park demolition fallout (02:36) Military advances and Mogok in suspension (04:20) Detention of election "critics" (05:58) With Laur Kiik, Myitsone suspension (13:26) Myitsone villages (28:53) Gold mining at Myitsone (38:28) Close Our guests— Laur Kiik, Burma Studies researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo. Rural resistance under a golden dictatorship, part 1: the Myitsone villages Rural resistance under a golden dictatorship, part 2: the suspended villages New original content on the Frontier website: 'Living in fear of the sky': Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh battle environmental crisis Further referenced this episode: Hkyet Hting Nan: 'One day we will have a Kachin president'

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