Burma News International (BNI) | October 6, 2016 Residents of Mytkyina, the Kachin State capital, and Tanai staged demonstrations on 3 October to protest against the ongoing Burma Army offensives against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in northern Kachin [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | October 6, 2016 Some 2,000 villagers have been displaced in Shan State’s Mong Kung Township following clashes between Burmese government forces and the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) on [...]
By Naw Noreen/ Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | October 6, 2016 The Karen National Union (KNU) has called on a breakaway faction of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) to disband and re-join the KNU, just nine months [...]
Kachinland News | October 6, 2016 Burmese army’s Nhkram-based troops on Wednesday fired 3 rounds of 81 mm mortar shells on KIA’s Gidon post beginning 9:40 am, reported KIA a frontline source. The shelling lasted for about ten minutes. [...]
Mizzima | October 5, 2016 The Kachin National Organisation is calling on the United Nations to investigate what it terms ‘crimes against humanity’ in Kachin State. The KNO in a press release on October 4 called on the UN [...]
Burma Link | October 5, 2016 The following case study is from the joint report “Invisible Lives: The Untold Story of Displacement Cycle in Burma” by Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), Burma Link, and Burma Partnership, which was [...]
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | October 4, 2016 September Clash Account (Kachin State and Northern Shan State) Clashes – 61 Burma Army Jet (Attack) – 2 Burma Army Jet (Recon) – 13 Burma Army Helo (Attack) – 3 Burma Army [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | October 3, 2016 Burma’s government forces have launched an offensive against the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) in Mong Kung Township, according to an RCSS/SSA spokesperson. Col. Sai Hla [...]
A new documentary film launched by Action for Shan State Rivers (28 Sept 2016) reveals the unique natural beauty of the “Thousand Island” area along the Pang River tributary of the Salween, currently threatened by plans to build the [...]
By Lu Min Mang/ The Myanmar Times | October 3, 2016 A girl as young as two years old was killed and two other children were injured when an artillery shell struck near their homes on the morning of [...]