By Ka Hsaw Wah/ Karen News | October 25, 2016 The Karen State government is now making arrangements for the first return of 96 residents – 19 families – who have been living in refugee camps on the Thai border. [...]
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | October 25, 2016 Since late September there have been repeated clashes between Burma Army forces and a Karen faction (DKBA) in the Mae Tha Waw area of Hpa An District [Past Report: Burma Army and [...]
By Aik Sai / Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA) | October 22, 2016 Since only ethnic armed groups that inked nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) are allowed to lead the national level political discourses, problems will surely arise for those leading the [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | October 20, 2016. “Do not put your trust in man. Rather, trust the constitution that we will be drafting.” These were the very words that Bogyoke Aung San used to address the deep mistrust expressed by [...]
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) | October 20, 2016 This detailed commentary examines ongoing militarisation in southeast Myanmar from 2014 to 2016. It includes villager's perspectives on military presence in and near villages; ongoing rotation of troops, re-supply of [...]
Joint Statement by 16 Rohingya Organisations | October 21, 2016 After attacks on police posts, on 9 October, allegedly by unknown Rohingya fighters, Myanmar authorities have disproportionally militarized Northern Arakan/Rakhine state raising a false alarm and creating human tragedies aim [...]
By Ka Saw Wah/ Burma News International (BNI) | October 21, 2016 Over 1,000 Karen refugees who fled from Mae Tha Wor in Karen State to Karen villages close to the border with Thailand after fighting in September face [...]
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint/ The Irrawaddy | October 21, 2016 The Burma Army has stopped a local environmentalist group from sending food relief to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township on suspicion that the supplies were [...]
Burma Link | October 21, 2016 Ko Han Gyi left Burma in 1988 after the student uprising and joined the ABSDF (All Burma Students’ Democratic Front) on the Thailand-Burma border. He stayed with the student armed group for over [...]
By Naw Noreen/ Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | October 20, 2016 Ninety residents of the Nu Po refugee camp in Thailand’s Tak Province are set to return to Burma next week in the first round of official repatriations for refugees [...]