By Saw Greh Moo / Karen Times | July 16, 2016 The Karen resistance movement was founded based on four guiding principles laid out by Saw Ba Oo Gyi, the father of modern Karen revolution. The four principles are: 1. Surrender is [...]
Burma News International (BNI) | July 14, 2016. Three Arakanese nationals including a social activist were convicted of maintaining links the outlawed Arakan Army. They were sentenced to two to three years of imprisonment with labour by the Kyauk [...]
Press Release by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | July 17, 2016 The UNFC Delegation led by Chairman N. Ban La of the KIO met with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi today at the National Reconciliation [...]
By Saw Yan Naing / The Irrawaddy | July 14, 2016 RANGOON — The United Nation’s (UN) refugee agency, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is conducting a “last call” resettlement initiative for Burmese refugees living in Thailand [...]
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation | July 13, 2016 Burma Army must be held accountable for extrajudicial killing of seven villagers in Mong Yaw Interviews carried out by SHRF with local witnesses show clearly that the Burma [...]
Karen Times | July 7, 2016 On June 17, a battalion commander from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army and twenty of his troops left their base and reunited with the Karen National Liberation Army, the military wing of the [...]
By Moe Gyo / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | July 13, 2016 Burma’s national League for Democracy (NLD) government has announced a 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC), scheduled for the end of August, to address the country’s decades-long [...]
By Saw Tun Lin / Karen News | July 12, 2016 Ku Oo Reh, leader of the Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) said that UNFC needs to continue discussions with the government. The Delegation for Political Negotiation led by [...]
Free Burma Rangers | July 12, 2016 The Burma Army is currently engaged in an escalating conflict in both northern Shan and Kachin states. The situation has left several dead, including a 22-year-old man killed by a landmine, and [...]
By Htet Khaung Linn / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | July 8, 2016 Za Hkawng, a 70-year-old ethnic Kachin man, prepares some tea in his small bamboo hut situated on a windy mountain ridge and recalls how he [...]