Tribal Action Group and Burma Link | July 3, 2017 120,000 Kachin IDPs (internally displaced people) struggle to survive on 6.5 US dollars per month as the Burma Army continues attacking villages and committing violations likely amounting to war [...]
By Joe Kumbun / Mizzima | July 3, 2017 The civil war which continues to rage in Kachin State has been going on for six years. The conflict started on 9 June2011, and since then a ceasefire has not [...]
Progressive Voice | June 29, 2017 This year’s World Refugee Day – 20 June 2017 – brought into focus the pressing and at times tragic issues facing refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Myanmar[1]. With the peace process [...]
By Shan State Farmers' Network (Nam La) / Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | June 29, 2017 On June 23, 2017, about 600 people from over 30 villages gathered in Nam Ma village tract, Hsipaw township, northern Shan State, [...]
Libby Hogan / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | June 28, 2017 A hearing for three journalists accused of consorting with a rebel Palaung group has been set for 11 July. The Irrawaddy’s Lawi Weng and DVB’s Aye Nai and Pyae [...]
By Aung Zaw / The Irrawaddy | June 28, 2017 At The Irrawaddy’s office, it is not uncommon for Lawi Weng to bring local snacks or homemade liquor to generously share among colleagues after returning from reporting trips to [...]
By Paing Soe / DVB | June 28, 2017 Two local Palaung villagers were killed and hundreds have fled their homes in recent days as shells rained down during an assault by Burmese government forces on a nearby base [...]
By Sithu Aung Myint / Frontier Myanmar | June 25, 2017 The contentious issue of non-secession need not be an obstacle to a final agreement to emerge from the Union peace conferences. ONE OF the most debated topics at [...]
By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | June 26, 2017 Burmese government forces stand accused of detaining more than 300 ethnic Palaung villagers in northern Shan State, and compelling hundreds more to flee their homes. Thaw [...]
Burma Link | June 27, 2017 Saw Bless grew up a multi-ethnic village in Taungoo, Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 2. Things started changing for young Saw Bless after he started going to school ran by the Karen Education Department [...]