Keel Dietz Profile picture
Myanmar Policy Consultant @Global_Witness, PhD candidate @SAISHopkins, irrepressible traveler and occasional food critic everywhere else.
Dec 8, 2022 41 tweets 10 min read
(1/x) Great news to see the (modified) Burma Act included in the US 2022 NDAA (Subtitle E). What does this mean for Burma? What comes next? Working on a more comprehensive piece, but wanted to give a short overview first 🧵👇:
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
rules.house.gov/sites/democrat… (2/x) What is the NDAA? It's the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual piece of legislation that lays out US defense priorities and authorizes appropriations. Because it's so important, non-defense legislation is often included as amendments.
sgp.fas.org/crs/natsec/IF1…