By Nang Seng Nom, The Irrawaddy | April 29, 2016 RANGOON — Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s state counselor and de facto leader of the new National League for Democracy (NLD) government, met with the Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee on [...]
By Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | April 29, 2016 The Burma Army is currently launching small scale attacks across different areas of Kachin and Shan states. They have killed and wounded several villagers, including wounding a 7-year-old girl and killing [...]
By S'Phan Shaung/Karen News | May 2, 2016 Refugees responded to a senior Tak Province official speaking about the repatriation of the more than 100,000 refugees from Burma living in camps along the Thai-Burmese border by claiming that withdrawal of [...]
By Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | April 29, 2016 The Burma Army has dispatched reinforcements to the Loi Say-Loi Leng area in northern Shan State’s Tangyan Township, where a Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) base is located, [...]
By KIC/BNI | April 27, 2016 Tensions are high after armed Burma Army troops breached the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) by entering the Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) headquarters territory of Oo Kray Kee Village in Waw Lay Sub-Township, [...]
By Lawi Leng / The Irrawaddy | April 28, 2016 After days of traveling from Karen State, Col. Saw San Aung and dozens of troops arrived in Arakan State last week to help the Arakan Army (AA) fight the [...]
Burma Partnership | April 26, 2016 The Burma Army is stepping up on its promise to “eliminate” the Arakan Army (AA) with an increase in the number and ferocity of military attacks in northern Arakan State. As ever, it [...]
By David Doyle, Mizzima | April 26, 2016 Two years ago, Kyar Yin was in the forest near his village collecting bamboo to sell when he stepped on a landmine. Alone and his left leg badly injured, the [...]
DVB | April 26, 2016 Lawmakers from the Arakan National Party (ANP) are planning to submit a proposal to parliament urging an immediate end to hostilities between the government military and ethnic armed group the Arakan Army in western [...]
Burma Link's book, Lives on the Line: Voices for Change from the Thailand-Burma Border, is available in English and Burmese (launched March 16, 2016). The book brings stories of Burma’s ethnic nationalities from diverse backgrounds to international audiences as [...]