BURMA: Pro-democracy politicians call for soldiers to defect
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There are unconfirmed reports that eighteen or nineteen soldiers have gone missing, and possibly deserted their station, on the city's outskirts. Rumours of defections trigger memories of the 1988 uprising, where some individuals and units, especially in the navy and air forces, joined the pro-democracy movement.
Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speakers: Aung Zaw, the editor of The Irrawaddy magazine; Dr Monique Skidmore, anthropologist at the Australian National University
