By Roland Watson / Dictator Watch | September 26, 2016 At the end of 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi dropped her boycott of Burma’s elections. She ordered the National League for Democracy to re-register as a political party, to participate in [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | September 26, 2016 It looks, smells, and feels like a war zone. The highway is lined with military vehicles and 120mm artillery guns point up into the mountains where rebel troops from a [...]
Burma Link | September 26, 2016 The following interview was conducted as part of the research for the joint report “Invisible Lives: The Untold Story of Displacement Cycle in Burma” by Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), Burma Link, [...]
Joint Statement by Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) | September 23, 2016 We, the undersigned organizations, strongly condemned the Arakan (Rakhine) State government’s plans to demolish more than 3000 Rohingyas’ buildings, including 12 mosques and 35 madrasas, in the [...]
Mizzima | September 23, 2016 In response to displacements following recent armed clashes in Kayin State, around 4000 people who took refuge in Myaing Gyi Ngu have received urgent assistance from the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) together with [...]
Statement by Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network (APRRN) | September 23, 2016 BANGKOK, 22 September 2016 – Over a hundred civil society groups, international observers and human rights defenders from across the Asia-Pacific region have finalised a series of [...]
Burma Link | September 22, 2016 Shirley Seng is an Executive Committee and founding member of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), an organisation which works to empower women and advance women’s participation in decision making and in the [...]
By Lawi Weng/ The Irrawaddy | September 22, 2016 Burma Army officers tried to convince displaced ethnic Karen on Thursday to return to their villages, despite continuous daily fighting in Karen State’s Mae Tha Waw area, The Irrawaddy has [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | September 22, 2016 KIA sources said Burmese army troops made several attempts last week to seize KIA’s Nhkram Gidon post, located near Laiza on the road between Myitkyina and Laiza in Sama County, and Lai Hpawng [...]
Statement by Karen National Union (KNU) | September 21, 2016. Today, September 21, was designated by the United Nations as World Peace Day in 1981, and the Day has been started to be honored and celebrated at the UN head [...]