By Narinjara / Burma New International | January 17, 2017 Peace-related civil society organisations (CSOs) held a meeting from morning to noon at Aung Myay Gone Monastery in the Arakan State’s capital Sittwe on 15 January. Representatives from over [...]
By Tsa Doi La & Nmang Gam / Kachinland News (KLN) | January 16, 2017 Two Burmese fighter jets Sunday pounded KIA’s 12th Battalion Headquarters at Man Gau in Mansi Township around 12:15 p.m. A cluster bomb dropped from [...]
By Hsa Moo / Karen News | January 17, 2017 A path has opened for environmental conservationists and rights advocates to strengthen their fight against gold mining and other socially and environmentally destructive projects in the rich forests of [...]
By Shoon Naing / Myanmar Times | January 17, 2017 Amnesty International yesterday called on the government to launch an immediate investigation into the whereabouts of two Kachin Baptist Church leaders who disappeared on December 24. The two men were [...]
By Kyaw Ko Ko / Myanmar Times | January 17, 2017 Scores of internally displaced persons (IDP) from the ethnic Palaung community are in dire need of food and medical supplies after they fled Namhsan amid fierce fighting between the military and armed [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | January 16, 2017 Three civilians were killed and seven injured, including two women and a five-year-old child, when two Burma Army jets indiscriminately bombed Pang Mark Mur village, Kyaukme township, northern Shan State, [...]
By Roland Watson / Dictator Watch | January 14, 2017 There is an idea, widespread in some quarters, that criticizing Aung San Suu Kyi helps the military dictatorship - that it plays into the generals' hands. This idea is false. [...]
Mon News Agency | January 12, 2016 “Early this morning [January 11], the KNLA troops fired roughly 40 times using large artillery rounds. In the process, our office building was damaged,” said the official from the NMSP’s Tavoy-District. After [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | January 16, 2017 Thousands of internally displaced persons in Kachin State are in urgent need of emergency assistance, protection and, especially, safe accommodation, local humanitarian organisations said at a press briefing. The [...]
By Tsa Doi La / Kachinland News (KLN) | January 15, 2017 At least five heavy artillery shells fired by Burmese army troops from their recently conquered KIA 3rd Battalion’s Nga Gyang outpost fell on the Chinese side of the [...]