Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | November 30, 2016 Fighting from 22nd – 24th of November Clashes (Incidents of fighting) – 40 Burma Army Jet (Attack) – 9 Burma Army Helo (Attack) – 10 Burma Army Jet (Recon) – 6 Burma Army [...]
Burma Link | November 30, 2016 Since the NLD-led Government’s coming to power, conflicts in Burma’s ethnic areas have intensified and widespread attacks against civilian populations have been documented by various civil society and human rights organisations. EAOs (Ethnic [...]
Network for Human Rights Documentation Burma (ND-Burma) | November 30, 2016 In October 2016, amid renewed violence in Rakhine state, it was reported that “dozens” of women had been raped by Burma/Myanmar army soldiers. The story shocked international media and [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | November 29, 2016 This update documents the following abuses committed by the Burma Army against civilians in three townships of northern Shan State while carrying out operations against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State [...]
Kachinland News | November 29, 2016 About 70 Mungkoe residents who have been arrested and taken inside the Burmese army’s byuha (tactical command post) since fighting broke out at the beginning of the fourth week of November between northern-allied [...]
By Nan Wai Phyo Zar / Karen News | November 28, 2016 A number of concerned civil society organizations have issued a statement demanding an investigation into the murder of a young Karen women activist, Naw Chit Pandaing, stabbed [...]
Shan State Farmers Network | November 29, 2016 On November 27, 2016, over 1,500 farmers from 19 townships gathered on the banks of the Namtu river in Hsipaw to demand an immediate cancellation of the Upper Yeywa dam in [...]
Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI) and Progressive Voice | November 29, 2016 The Asian NGO Network on National Human Rights Institutions (ANNI), together with its member, Progressive Voice,[1] is deeply concerned over the human rights situation [...]
By Mark Farmaner / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | November 28, 2016 In 2006 I received a phone call from a senior Burmese democracy activist in exile. In five years at Burma Campaign UK it was the first [...]
Media Release from Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) | November 24, 2016 Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK is calling for urgent action from the international community to press the Myanmar government to lift all restrictions on humanitarian in Rakhine State. [...]