Aung Moe Myint / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | June 08, 2016 Ethnic leaders in Shan and Kachin states announced their support on Wednesday for the Myanmar government’s upcoming Panglong Conference, State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s ambitious plan [...]
Joint statement by 130 solidarity organizations worldwide | June 09, 2016 Although much of the world has expressed excitement over Myanmar’s political transition, communities throughout Kachin and northern Shan states have been living with severe human rights abuses and displacement for [...]
Burma Partnership | June 08, 2016 On 1 June, 2016, representatives from various political parties and civil society organizations in Shan State gathered in attempt to build consensus among the region’s diverse ethnic groups before the launch of the [...]
Statement by Jinghpaw Wunpawng Amyu Sha Hpung / Kachin National Organization | June 08, 2016 The KNO strongly urges the Government of Pakistan to stop selling JF-17 fighter jets to the Burmese military. Instead, we ask that they seek [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | June 8th, 2016 In early June, the National League for Democracy (NLD) government’s new peace negotiator Dr. Tin Myo Win met with the United Nationalities Federal Council’s (UNFC) Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN), which [...]
By Mon Htaw / Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 07, 2016 Approximately 500 locals from Paung Township, Mon State staged a protest against Long Life Aggregate Mining Co., Ltd, urging it to shut down its mining project, on Sunday morning [...]
By Aung Moe Myint and Khin Maung Soe / RFA | June 03, 2016 A Myanmar government peace delegation met on Friday with a new group formed by an alliance of armed ethnic groups that did not sign last year’s nationwide cease-fire [...]
By Banya Hongsar for Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 06, 2016 Historical ethnic political alliance: The leaders of ethnic armed insurgencies expressed in a formal statement that ‘in the deliberation, we determined that since the time of independence [...]
By Banya Hongsar for Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 01, 2016 The politics of alliance has never been defined in its own narrative within the ethnic writer and scholar in modern political literature in English. However, it has [...]
By Karen News | 04 June, 2016 Local villagers from Maw Kee in Myawaddy District were frightened by gunshot fired Burma army commander near their village. Villagers said the Burma Army was angry in negotiation with villagers when he [...]