By Thu Thu Aung / Myanmar Times | January 4, 2017 In one northern Shan State township fresh waves of displacement are being driven by a looming threat of heavy artillery, while nearby, thousands of IDPs have returned home [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | December 27, 2016 Looting, arbitrary arrest, torture, forced labour by Burma Army in Muse, northern Shan State Looting, damage of villagers’ houses by Burma Army ID 33 troops in Pang Hsai, northern Shan [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | December 22, 2016 At least 3,000 villagers who fled their homes in Shan State’s Kyaukme District to escape the fighting between Shan and Ta’ang militias are currently taking shelter in the towns of [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | December 23, 2016 A mass grave containing the remains of 18 Mung Lung villagers including a two-year-old boy has been discovered in a forest near Mung Lung Nam Hkye Ho village in Mongkoe area on [...]
Briefing Paper by Progressive Voice (PV) | December 19, 2016 Progressive Voice releases a new briefing paper on recent developments and their impact on the return discourse for refugees along the Thailand-Myanmar border. Increasing armed conflict and militarization throughout ethnic areas, [...]
By Tsa Doi La & Nmang Gam / Kachinland News (KLN) | December 21, 2016 Burmese military fighter jets launch multiple airstrikes for three consecutive days on KIA’s Lai Hpawng post manned by KIA’s 3rd Battalion troops under 5th Brigade. Four fighter [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | December 20, 2016 Many of the participants at yesterday’s rally in Rangoon were not ethnic people but rather local pro-military activists masquerading in ethnic costumes, according to representatives of civil society organisations (CSOs) [...]
By Dictator Watch | December 21, 2016 There is so much happening in Burma - it's an entire country after all - but for the most important issues accurate much less comprehensive information is never available. Witness the military dictatorship's [...]
By Thu Thu Aung / Myanmar Times | December 21, 2016 Thousands of people in Kachin State have been newly displaced in the aftermath of a military offensive that saw Tatmadaw troops overrun the Kachin Independence Army’s Gidon mountaintop outpost. [...]
By Stella Naw / The Irrawaddy | December 20, 2016 The Burma Army attack on the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) outpost of Gideon started in September. Four months later, after intensified fire from the air and ground, Gideon fell [...]