By Tsa Doi La / Kachinland News (KLN) | December 20, 2016 The TNLA said Burmese army troops deliberately targeting civilian population in areas where no fighting is taking place between the two opposing troops. Troops from Burmese army’s 567th Light [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | December 19, 2016 A spokesperson for the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has confirmed recent media speculation that the ethnic coalition Northern Alliance is willing to sit down for peace talks with Burmese [...]
By Pangmu Shayi / Kachinland News (KLN) | December 17, 2016 A newly formed coalition of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) calling itself the Northern Alliance-Burma (NA-B), began launching coordinated strikes against Burma Army positions in Northern Shan State on November [...]
Joint Statement by Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (ARNO) with 16 organisations | December 18, 2016 We, the undersigned Rohingya organisations worldwide, strongly condemn the false and fabricated statement of the Government Investigation Commission, led by military appointed Vice-President U Myint Swe, which [...]
Burma Campaign UK (BCUK) | December 16, 2016 Burma Campaign UK today publishes a new briefing paper, ‘Time for a rethink on policy towards Burma’s military’, calling for a debate on new ways to influence Burma’s military. The commentary [...]
By Aung Zaw / The Irrawaddy | December 15, 2016. Leon de Riedmatten is no stranger to Burma. In 1999, in the heyday of the former military regime, he was head of the International Committee of the Red Cross [...]
Press Statement by 313 Civil Society Organiszations | 14 December 2016 We, the undersigned civil society organizations working in Myanmar, are troubled to learn that a, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on 13 December 2016 between Noble Prince Company Limited, Sun and [...]
Kachinland News | December 15, 2016 As fighting raged between northern-allied troops (NA-B) and the Burmese army in northern Shan State, about 70 Mongkoe residents were taken hostage on Nov 19, 2016, and taken to the army’s Byuha Hill [...]
By KNG / Burma News International (BNI) | December 15, 2016 The Burma Army bombed a Roman Catholic Church in Mong Ko Town in northern Shan State where it is fighting with the Northern Alliance. During fighting in Mong Ko, [...]
By Thu Thu Aung / Myanmar Times | December 15, 2016 Renewed clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army have kicked off in upper Paletwa township, Chin State, with some 200 people displaced on December 12. “Two-hundred IDPs [internally displaced [...]