By Soe Zan Aung (Toungup) / Narinjara / BNI Online | September 27, 2018 The Arakan Youth Association – Japan has denounced the government for re-arresting eight Mrauk-U youths after they served their sentence for taking part in the [...]
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) | September 27, 2018 It has been over one month since Nang Mo Hom, a Shan woman living in Ho Naung Ward, Namhkam City in Muse District, Shan State, was arrested at gunpoint [...]
28 Rohingya Organizations | September 25, 2018 We are deeply dismayed by the openly anti-International Criminal Court (ICC) view expressed by Dr. Wakar Uddin, the Director-General of the Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU), in his Burmese language interview with the [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | September 26, 2018 Following the fighting, Arakanese men have been detained near the Indian border under the suspicion of having ties to the AA. Recent clashes have occurred between the Arakan [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | September 25, 2018 Mon State — A leader of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) says the government will let it transport 5,000 tons of logged timber currently stuck in the jungle on [...]
By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | September 25, 2018 YANGON—Eight Arakanese freed by a Sittwe court on Monday after spending months in detention for participating in a protest in Mrauk-U in were abruptly re-arrested on the orders of [...]
Mon News Agency / BNI Online | September 24, 2018 An informal roundtable discussion of the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC)’s secretaries was held for two days in Naypyidaw. The two-day roundtable discussion was held at Mount Pleasant [...]
Karen Community of Canada (KCC) | September 24, 2018 Dear Minister Chrystia Freeland, As the Karen Community of Canada, we were pleased to see Canadian MPs unanimously support the motion to declare the Rohingya crisis a genocide and to [...]
Narinjara / BNI Online | September 24, 2018 Fighting is raging between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army (AA) in Paletwa Township in western Myanmar border. The Arakan Army announced that a clash broke out near Ohn Thee Wa [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | September 21, 2018 The men, who range in age from 19 to 23, were working on the Shan-China border to earn money for their school fees and to [...]