Mandalay
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Oct 1, 2026
Lway Mownt NoonGUEST
than other women.
Lway Mownt NoonGUEST
And also in Yangon and Mandalay and Nebido and other cities in Myanmar also, different experience of the children, both women, both boys and girls.
Lway Mownt NoonGUEST
So they are in cities because of the sanctions by the international governments and the international community.
Lway Mownt NoonGUEST
In the city, there are lots of jobless people.
WazooHOST
Power of Abeei drone team was founded by the Myanmar Muslim Revolution Force, MMRF, in 2023, two years after the military coup.
MayuSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was living in Mandalay attending university when I went to visit my family in Mae Sot, a Thai border town very close to Myanmar.
MayuSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My family had moved there before I graduated, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I found myself stuck and unable to return to school.
MayuSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Then, the 2021 military coup happened.
AlistairNARRATOR
Subsection Burma and Siam It is time that we turned, as the French did, toward the kingdom of Siam, west of French Indo-China, and toward the kingdom of Burma, west of Siam.
AlistairNARRATOR
In the early 1880s King Thabor of Burma was favorably inclined toward the French and gave them the right to build a railway from Tonkin to Mandalay and establish a bank and exploit ruby mines.
AlistairNARRATOR
Apparently he was endeavoring to play the French off against the British, who were, in India, closer and therefore more dangerous neighbors.
AlistairNARRATOR
With indignation the British learned of the progress of French peaceful penetration.
AlistairNARRATOR
Protests of France had been vain.
AlistairNARRATOR
Not to be balked in this fashion, the British Government of India took the abrupt step of sending King Thibaw a cool ultimatum requiring him to welcome a British representative and to follow British advice in his foreign affairs.
AlistairNARRATOR
Ten thousand British and Indian soldiers followed the ultimatum, invaded Mandalay, captured King Thibaw, and sent him in safe custody to India.
AlistairNARRATOR
Then the Viceroy of India announced on January first, eighteen eighty-six, that Thibaw's kingdom of Burma was annexed to British India.
John David ReynoldsHOST
But also, in Buddhism, there's a term called samvega, which means like a feeling of spiritual urgency.
John David ReynoldsHOST
And I was probably the most Samuega I ever felt was right after seeing, or right after my first visit to the Mandalay City morgue and seeing like several dead people lying around.
John David ReynoldsHOST
And, you know, when you realize that you're gonna die, you know, you're just practicing , recollection of death.
John David ReynoldsHOST
If you do it effectively, then that can really be a kick in the behind.
MikeGUEST
Mogok is renowned for its rubies, sapphires, and mystical atmosphere.
MikeGUEST
Our group met and traveled from Mandalay to Mogok by two vans with an armed guard in each van because of possible bandits on the road seeking to rob travelers of gems and their money.
MikeGUEST
On the first day in Mogok, our group went to the local market seeking information about possible locations for early primate bones.
MikeGUEST
I purchased a Burmese kida, or sword, in the market, which led to an unexpected invitation by the local guide to witness a demonstration of local martial arts.
MikeGUEST
A week later, on our last full day in Mogok, I received an invitation from Sayar U Maung to visit.
MikeGUEST
When I visited him that evening, he said he had a very strong feeling that I had been a member of his martial art group in a past life.
MikeGUEST
He then shared these feelings with the leader of the martial art group for northern Burma who lived in Mandalay.
MikeGUEST
They then traveled to Mogok to meet me.
Amy ShroffGUEST
Let's start with some good preventative care, good diet.
Amy ShroffGUEST
vaccinations deworming treatment for mange treatment for transmissible venereal tumors and let's sterilize them all and so once we did that on a smaller scale i said you know what we really need to do if you're interested is to start doing tnvr on the community animals surrounding this small shelter because otherwise again you'll keep getting animals dumped you'll keep getting animals brought to your shelter and so uh it kind of grew from there And we started in Mandalay, which is the second largest city outside Yangon.
Amy ShroffGUEST
And we just started with 20 animals a month, and then 50, and then 100, then 150.
Amy ShroffGUEST
And now we're doing about 200 to 250 a month in each city, Yangon
AnilHOST
and Mandalay.
Amy ShroffGUEST
yeah and it's it's all because i mean even this t-shirt i'm wearing was designed by them i don't know if you can see it
AnilHOST
yes i can see the
Amy ShroffGUEST
We're not in the middle of the fighting, you know, and the team is affected because of their families that are being affected.
Pat CorkeryHOST
The Pilgrim's Chorus from Tannhauser was performed there by the Robert Shaw Chorale.
Pat CorkeryHOST
Aussie baritone Peter Dawson has for us On the Road to Mandalay.
Pat CorkeryHOST
On the Road to Mandalay
Peter DawsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
By the old bull mine pagoda, look on eastward to the sea.
Peter DawsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's a Burma girl a-setting, and I know she thinks of me.
Peter DawsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
For the wind is in the palm trees And the temple bells they sing Come you back, you British soldier Come you back to Mandalay Come you back to Mandalay Come you back to Mandalay, where the old blue tail are lay.
Peter DawsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Can't you hear their battles chunking from Rangoon to Rangoon? © BF-WATCH TV 2021 It be somewhere east or south, where the best is like the worst, where there ain't no ten common myths, and a man can reign the first.
Peter DawsonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
For the temper bells are calling, and it's there that I would be.
AlistairNARRATOR
It is time that we turned, as the French did, toward the Kingdom of Siam west of French Indo-China and toward the Kingdom of Burma west of Siam.
AlistairNARRATOR
In the early eighteen eighties, King Thibaw of Burma was favorably inclined toward the French and gave them the right to build a railway from Tonkin to Mandalay and establish a bank and exploit ruby mines.
AlistairNARRATOR
Apparently, he was endeavoring to play the French off against the British, who were in India closer and therefore more dangerous neighbors.
AlistairNARRATOR
With indignation, the British learned of the progress of French peaceful penetration.
AlistairNARRATOR
Protests of France had been vain.
AlistairNARRATOR
Not to be balked in this fashion, the British government of India took the abrupt step of sending King Thibaw a cool ultimatum requiring him to welcome a British representative and to follow British advice in his foreign affairs.
AlistairNARRATOR
Ten thousand British and Indian soldiers followed the ultimatum, invaded Mandalay, captured King Thibaw, and sent him in safe custody to India.
AlistairNARRATOR
Then the Viceroy of India announced on January first, eighteen eighty-six, that Thibaw's Kingdom of Burma was annexed to British India.
Alan ClementsNARRATOR
Hunger and malnutrition are deepening by the day.
Alan ClementsNARRATOR
Across Sagaing and Magui, Chin and Kachin, Karini and Karin states, Rakhine, Shan, Mandalay, and beyond.
Alan ClementsNARRATOR
Civilians have endured airstrikes, artillery, landmines, arbitrary detention, torture, burned villages, and repeated displacement.
Alan ClementsNARRATOR
The United Nations Human Rights Office reported that airstrikes were the leading cause of civilian casualties in 2025, killing at least 982 civilians, including 232 children.
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