Karen News | June 20, 2016 Despite the on-going peace process in Burma today, thousands of ethnic people are fleeing fighting, and many of them are not able to cross international borders to safety.” The KWO statement pointed out [...]
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | June 21, 2016 A serviceman from the Burmese armed forces shot and killed an 18-year-old university student in Myitkyina on Monday evening following an argument at a checkpoint. The victim [...]
By Phyo Thiha Cho / Mizzima News | June 21, 2016 On a recent afternoon in May, the farmers of OhnTitbin Village Tract were tending to their betel nut and rubber plantations when a loud blast erupted at the foot [...]
Today, on World Refugee Day (June 20, 2016), an animation created by Burma Link and Burma Partnership reminds the world of the plight of Mon refugees from Burma who were pushed back to their home country in 1994. Over [...]
By Saw Yan Naing / The Irrawaddy | June 17, 2016 RANGOON—The Thai government and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have repeatedly insisted that the return of more than 120,000 Burmese refugees from Thailand should be voluntary. According to NGOs, some [...]
Statement by the Women’s League of Burma | June 16, 2016 The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is seriously concerned at the Tatmadaw’s recent new offensives and ongoing impunity for war crimes, which are undermining the government’s new peace [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | June 13, 2016 As the Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and over a hundred Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), local and international, called for peace and an end to the military offensives [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | June 8th, 2016 In early June, the National League for Democracy (NLD) government’s new peace negotiator Dr. Tin Myo Win met with the United Nationalities Federal Council’s (UNFC) Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN), which [...]
By Banya Hongsar for Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 06, 2016 Historical ethnic political alliance: The leaders of ethnic armed insurgencies expressed in a formal statement that ‘in the deliberation, we determined that since the time of independence [...]
By Banya Hongsar for Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 01, 2016 The politics of alliance has never been defined in its own narrative within the ethnic writer and scholar in modern political literature in English. However, it has [...]