By Tsa Doi La / Kachinland News | February 7, 2017 This past Sunday marked the 56th anniversary of the Kachin Revolution Day. Kachin communities around the world commemorated the Kachin Revolution Day with prayer services, songs, plays, gun [...]
By Nmang Gam / Kachinland News | February 6, 2017 Members of Kachin Independence Organization and Kachin communities around the world commemorated the 56th Anniversary of the Kachin Revolution Day on Feb 5. KIO/KIA personnel and local civilians held [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | February 6, 2017 Thousands of protesters, civil society organisations and rights advocates took to the streets over the weekend at several major cities around the country in calls for peace ahead of [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | February 05, 2017 Days after U Ko Ni’s assassination the police department, and for that reason the home ministry, hasn’t come up with an explanation or press conference to clear [...]
Statement (2) on U Ko Ni case by Legal Aid Network | February 2, 2017 The Preamble of the UDHR provides, inter alia, that human rights should be protected by the Rule of Law. In Burma, the deprivation of Supreme [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 4, 2017 State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has remained noticeably silent regarding the death of National League for Democracy (NLD) legal advisor U Ko Ni, who was assassinated earlier [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | February 3, 2017 After months of public silence, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has acknowledged, albeit somewhat obliquely, the deteriorating security environment in Kachin State, with the office of Burma’s de facto [...]
By K'Hsaw Wah / Karen News | February 3, 2017 A displaced villager from the Mae Tha Wor area of Hlaingbwe Township, Karen State stepped on a landmine as he and other villagers returned to their village to check [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | February 2, 2017 Police in the eastern Burmese border town of Myawaddy have said that a man named Myint Swe is in custody, believed to be the mastermind or the paymaster behind Sunday’s [...]
By Saw Yan Naing / The Irrawaddy | January 30, 2017 US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday initiating a temporary ban on refugee arrivals for at least four months, officially halting all refugee admission and resettlement [...]