S'Phang Shaung / Karen News | February 23, 2016New executive members of the Karen Refugee Committee (KRC) have called for the new NLD government to put the issue of refugee repatriation on its agenda. The KRC executive said the [...]
Press release by Burma Partnership | February 12, 2016 [12 February, 2016] Today, on the 69th anniversary of the signing of the Panglong Agreement, it is time to review the failures of the recent peace process, urged Burma Partnership. [...]
Burma Link | February 7, 2016 Villagers in Halockhani, a Mon internally displaced person (IDP) village in southeast Burma, held an opening ceremony for a new hospital on January 26, 2016. The hospital was built by a Swedish group [...]
By Roland Watson, Dictatorwatch | February 2, 2016 Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy have now taken over the government of Burma - at least those parts not reserved for the military. She has announced [...]
Khu Oo Reh, The Irrawaddy | January 28, 2016 In 2016,the question of lifting the on-going arms embargo and related sanctions against the Tatmadaw, as the Burma Army is known, and its civilian cronies will be revisited by Western [...]
KNU (Karen National Union) Vice-President Naw Zipporah Sein | January 14, 2016 1) LAIZA SUMMIT AND FORMATION OF NCCT The efforts of the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) to negotiate a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the Burmese/Myanmar government began [...]
Press release by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) and Legal Aid Network (LAN) | January 19, 2016 A new report exposes the systematic cover-up of the Myanmar Army’s involvement in the rape-murder of two Kachin teachers in Kawng [...]
Foreword Burma/Myanmar, after receiving independence on January 4, 1948 from the British colonialists in accordance with the Panlong Agreement, was accompanied by the civil war. Since the rulers of successive eras have tried to end the civil war, in [...]
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | January 18, 2016 Government troops attack Ta’ang village in Lashio, killing two villagers, one mentally disabled, on Burma’s Independence Day. On January 4, 2016, Burma’s Independence Day -- celebrated with [...]
"Heart for Freedom" is a one hour documentary about the Karen People and their struggle for Freedom in what has become the world's longest ongoing conflict. Since World War II the Burmese military has waged a brutal war against [...]