Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation | November 20, 2015 The Shan Human Rights Foundation strongly condemns the Burma Army shelling and aerial bombing of Mong Nawng town in central Shan State between November 9 and 12, 2015. [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | November 17, 2015 One Burmese Army’s fighter jet and two helicopters on Monday bombed KIA’s 8th Brigade headquarters in southwestern Kachin State at around 12 pm. The fighter jet and two helicopters fired five rounds [...]
Statement by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | November 12, 2015 We would like to mention that we have to put on record and express our special thanks to the government led by President U Thein Sein for [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N) | November 9, 2015 As polls closed in the country’s general election yesterday, Burma Army soldiers shot two civilians—including one child—as they were leaving their paddy fields in southern Shan State, according to [...]
Burma Campaign UK (BCUK) | November 6, 2015 Burma Campaign UK today described the draft UN General Assembly Resolution on the situation of human rights in Burma as not reflecting the scale and seriousness of the human rights situation [...]
Statement by Shan Community Based Organisations | November 6, 2015 Shan Community Based Organisations (CBOs) strongly denounce the current military offensive by Naypyidaw in central Shan State, which has caused civilian injury and displaced over 6,000 villagers since it [...]
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation | November 3, 2015 The SHRF strongly condemns the escalated attacks in the past week by the Burma Army against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in central Shan State, [...]
Burma Link | November 3, 2015 Chit Min Lay was 24 years old when he was arrested at his home and taken to an interrogation centre, following his participation in the 1996 and 1998 student demonstrations. Chit Min Lay [...]
Press release | October 30, 2015 Despite plans by the Myanmar Ministry of Mines to investigate a controversial coal mining project in the remote Ban Chaung area of Dawei District, mining operations have resumed last week, after a four-month [...]
Burma Link | October 28, 2015 In 1996, Chit Min Lay was a young university student full of dreams, wishing to become a literature man and a poet. He was about to finish his four-year degree at the University [...]