"Monitoring Violence In Myanmar" with Bellingcat's Pooja Chaudhuri

About this episode

Pooja Chaudhuri discusses the ongoing violence in Myanmar and her longitudinal data analysis of disappearing villages in Rakhine State.

This week we spoke to Bellingcat's Pooja Chaudhuri about the ongoing violence in Myanmar. After tracking developments in Rakhine State for three years, Pooja has recently published a longitudinal data analysis of what has happened to the villages and townships disappearing off government maps. Within the talk, she guides us through this work and the obstacles faced in order to monitor this difficult to access region. The talk was hosted by Charlotte Maher on May 28th 2026. Music featured is courtesy of Artlist. Recorded live in our Discord Server: https://discord.com/invite/bellingcat Links: Her 2026 report: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/05/27/the-lost-villages-of-myanmars-rakhine/?utm_source=rss Her previous reporting: 2024: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/06/05/myanmar-military-territorial-losses-war-conflict-human-rights-burma/ 2025: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04/29/open-sources-show-myanmar-junta-airstrike-damages-despite-post-earthquake-ceasefire/ Human Rights Watch report: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/18/myanmar-no-redress-for-rohingya-muslims-in-arakan-army-massacre Resources mentioned: https://acleddata.com/…

People in this episode

Host: Charlotte Maher

Guest: Pooja Chaudhuri

Topics covered

• violence in Myanmar
• data analysis
• human rights
• Rakhine State
• conflict monitoring
• journalism

Keywords

• Myanmar
• Rakhine State
• violence
• data analysis
• human rights
• Bellingcat
• Pooja Chaudhuri
• journalism
• conflict
• monitoring

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bellingcat, Human Rights Watch

Books & works: the lost villages of myanmar's rakhine, myanmar military territorial losses, open sources show myanmar junta airstrike damages

Places: Myanmar, Rakhine State

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