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 [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | December 14, 2016 The bodies of three murdered Mongkoe residents were recovered by civilians on December 11. The Burmese army troops had clandestinely buried the bodies after brutally torturing and killing the victims, locals reported [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | December 13, 2016 Mae Tao Clinic founder Dr Cynthia Maung said that health organisations on the Thai side of the Thai-Burma border, including the Mae Tao Clinic will need to continue providing healthcare services. [...]
Statement by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | December 13, 2016 To inform the wider public, the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) would like to clarify the situations regarding peace talks and military offensives on the ground. 1. As [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | December 12, 2106 The eight ethnic armed groups that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the Burmese government in 2015 have denounced last week’s parliamentary motions to label the Northern Alliance a [...]