Jonathan Head
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175 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
Jonathan Head’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The nerves are setting in.
Rock, paper, scissors.
We're ready for it.
Rock, paper, scissors.
Rock, paper, scissors.
Even when they finished three rounds of voting spanning over a month, we expect only about half of the country to have taken part.
I mean, the polling station I've been to here in Mandalay, they're using new electronic voting machines.
It was very smooth.
Everyone knew what to do.
But Mandalay is a stronghold of support for Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy.
And of course, she's in jail and has been since the first day of the coup.
And her party's been dissolved.
So
I don't think people in this city would feel like they've got much of a choice.
Everybody knows that the military's own party, which remember only won 6% of seats in the last free election five years ago, they know it's going to win.
It's guaranteed to win this time.
Unlike the last ceasefire in July, President Trump was conspicuously absent from this one, although the US State Department has also been involved.
Thailand had been reluctant, claiming that the last ceasefire was not properly implemented.
The Thais also resented what they saw as Cambodia's efforts to internationalise the conflict.
In the end, they struck the deal at a bilateral meeting, led only by the two countries' defence ministers.
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