Burma – Free and Fair Elections?
Karen News | September 28, 2015 The people of Burma will go the polls on November 8, 2015. Karen News talked to a wide range of people to get their views on the election and what they hoped it [...]
Statement of PSLF/TNLA on the Current Political and Military Issues in Burma
PSLF/TNLA | September 27, 2015 The Burmese Army has increased its offensives in the Ta’ang regions, resulting in more clashes as we release this statement. We believe that these military offensives reflect the Burmese government’s lack of desire for [...]
Burma Army Forces About 30 Villagers to Be Human Shields
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | September 17, 2015 Burma Army forces about 30 villagers to be human shields during fighting in Kunhing On August 25, 2015, about 30 villagers in Kunhing township, southern Shan State, [...]
Burma Army Artillery and Knife Attack Kills One Villager and Injures Six Others in Southern Shan State
Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | September 14, 2015 An elderly woman was killed and six villagers were seriously injured in an artillery and knife attack on a Buddhist temple by the Burma Army on Saturday morning in [...]
AA, MNDAA and PSLF/TNLA Top Leaders Alliance Meeting Statement Sep 10, 2015
An alliance meeting between the top leaders of the Arakan Army (AA), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), and Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF/TNLA) was successfully held in a liberated area from September 9 to 10, 2015. Political and military issues […]
Burma Truth On-Line Film Festival and Arts Competition: “Helping Ethnic Minorities have Voice”
Ethnics have been greatly disadvantaged by those in power in Burma, as well as by those in the international community who support them. There are differing viewpoints on this matter that need to be brought to light. This festival-competition is intended to give activists, artists and interested […]
Karen Community Groups Demand KNU Take Their Concerns Seriously
Karen community groups claim the Karen National Union is ignoring their concerns about the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement with the government. The claims came at a meeting 15 community-based Karen groups had with the KNU leaders to discuss the nationwide ceasefire agreement. […]
Ceasefire Wonderland
According to accepted negotiating practice, no agreement is better than a bad agreement. Nonetheless, many ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) are now agreeing to sign the current Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). It is as if – just like Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – these EAOs have gone down a rabbit hole into a Ceasefire Wonderland created by the Tatmadaw [Burma’s armed forces] […]
Attending Asian Highway Opening Ceremony Legitimizes Government’s Use of Force, Land Confiscation and Displacement
Dear General Mutu Sae Poe, The International Karen Organization (IKO) is deeply troubled to learn that you were invited as a special guest of the quasi-civilian government of Thein Sein to the opening ceremony of the Asian Highway 1 (AH1) from Myawaddy to Kawkareik on 30 August. […]
‘The Villagers [in Burma] Don’t Dare to Speak Out’: Kayan Refugee
Burma Link | August 29, 2015 Kataerina, a Kayan (also known as Padaung) woman from Pyin Soung village in southern Shan State, is now 35 years old and has three daughters. Her life seems smooth for now, but it [...]