Burma Link | June 20, 2016 Mon IDP (Internally Displaced Person) settlements in southeast Burma were established over 20 years ago when scores of civilians were fleeing armed conflict and conflict-related abuse as well as widespread land confiscations at [...]
By Saw Yan Naing / The Irrawaddy | June 17, 2016 RANGOON—The Thai government and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have repeatedly insisted that the return of more than 120,000 Burmese refugees from Thailand should be voluntary. According to NGOs, some [...]
Statement by the Women’s League of Burma | June 16, 2016 The Women’s League of Burma (WLB) is seriously concerned at the Tatmadaw’s recent new offensives and ongoing impunity for war crimes, which are undermining the government’s new peace [...]
By S'Phan Shaung / Karen News | June 16, 2016 In an effort to resettle and reintegrate internally displaced communities, the Karen National Union’s local officials are using funding from Japan’s Nippon Foundation to build low-cost housing for displaced people [...]
By Khonumthung / Burma News International (BNI) | June 14, 2016 The Chin National Front Chairman, Pu Zing Cung, said that comprehensive political dialogue and national peace will not happen until all ethnic armed organisations (EIOs) are included in the ceasefire. [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | June 16, 2016 Lieutenant General Pang Fa, the Chairman of the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) has indicated that the SSPP/SSA is willing to facilitate negotiations between the Ta’ang National Liberation [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | June 13, 2016 As the Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and over a hundred Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), local and international, called for peace and an end to the military offensives [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | June 10, 2016 At least seven people were detained by an unknown group while travelling on the Namkham to Mandalay highway last Sunday, according to a representative from the Shan National League [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | June 10, 2016 Thursday marks the 5th anniversary of the renewed war in Kachin region. Kachin communities around the world held prayer services and ceremonies to commemorate the anniversary. Hundreds of IDPs living at temporary camps [...]
By Moe Myint/ The Irrawaddy | June 10, 2016 MYITKYINA, Kachin State — All Aike Yoon wants is to go home. But he can’t. The 40-year-old is currently living in Thagara Monastery, which serves as a makeshift internally displaced [...]