The following interview was conducted as part of the research for the joint report “Invisible Lives: The Untold Story of Displacement Cycle in Burma” by Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), Burma Link, and Burma Partnership, which was launched [...]
By Zaw Zaw Htwe and Shoon Naing / The Myanmar Times | September 9, 2016 A police officer in Kachin State has been suspended and detained after video circulated online this week showing him threatening to shoot villagers in Hpakant township [...]
Statement by Kachin Women's Association of Thailand (KWAT) | September 9, 2016 Statement on KWAT’s 17th anniversary denouncing escalating Burma Army offensives to seize control of Kachin State’s natural resources On this occasion of the 17th anniversary of KWAT’s [...]
By SAW YAN NAING / The Irrawaddy | September 8, 2016 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — As Burma’s Union Peace Conference began in Naypyidaw in late August, fighting resumed in Karen State’s Myaing Gyi Nyu and Mae Tha Waw between a [...]
By NAW NOREEN / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | September 9, 2016 The Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP) clashed in Tenasserim’s Yebyu Township on Thursday in the first clash between the two major ethnic [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | September 8, 2016 The Burma Army stopped a Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) vehicle transporting medicine to internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Eastern Kachin State near the Chinese border and seized all the medicines [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | September 8, 2016 SHRF strongly condemns the recent Burma Army attack on a strategic mountain base of the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in Tangyan township, causing about 100 villagers to flee [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | September 7, 2016 The Union Minister of Ethnic Affairs, Nai Thet Lwin, said the Burmese military and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) should sign an immediate ceasefire and continue political dialogue to implement the peace [...]
By Saw Thein Mint / Karen News | September 7, 2016 Ethnic leaders have warned that now is not the time to give up arms, in reaction to a speech calling for disarmament by the Burmese Commander-in-Chief General Min Aung [...]
By S'Phan Shaung / Karen News | September 7, 2016 Armed clashes broke out in Karen State between splinter Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) forces and government backed militia. The fighting started in central Karen State on September 2nd, in Mae [...]