Open letter to the KNU (Karen National Union) by the IKO (International Karen Organization) | August 24, 2015 The International Karen Organization Comprising of Karen Organizations from all over the world is very apprehensive about the statement issued after the [...]
Burma Link | July 31, 2015 Aung Than is 26 years old, enthusiastic and positive young Arakanese man from the Chin State, whose determination of acquiring an education has kept him going through difficult and challenging times in his [...]
Summary of a KHRG interview in Thaton District, Karen State | August 26, 2015 Below are excerpts of Karen Human Rights Group’s (KHRG) interview with Ma A---, a Karen villager who describes events occurring in her village in June [...]
Extract of KHRG incident report from Thaton (Doo Tha Htoo) District | August 26, 2015 Below is an extract of Karen Human Rights Group’s (KHRG) News Bulletin describing an incident in which the Burma/Myanmar government police force and Burma/Myanmar [...]
Karen News | August 26, 2015 Major General Nerdah Bo Mya, head of the Karen National Defence Organisation in an exclusive interview with Karen News said that moves to sign a nationwide Ceasefire Agreement is worthless unless all ethnic [...]
Statement by Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) | August 24, 2015 The Summit of the Ethnic Armed Organizations’ (EAOs) top leaders was held successfully in Chiang Mai, Thailand on August 21-24 and was attended by fifteen of the seventeen EAOs’ [...]
Burma Link | August 19th, 2015 Through the Eyes of an Internally Displaced Rohingya The Rohingya, often referred to as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, live in the Arakan State (also known as Rakhine state) in Western [...]
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | August 14, 2015 Indiscriminate Burma Army Shelling Near SSPP/SSA Headquarters Endangers Thousands of Villagers On August 7, 2015, while critical nationwide ceasefire talks were taking place in Yangon, the Burma Army fired [...]
Maung Zarni / DVB | August 12, 2015 Last week, the ninth round of ceasefire negotiations between Burma’s quasi-civilian government and the negotiators representing the country’s Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) ended without any conclusive agreement in Rangoon. Now the Burmese [...]
Burma Campaign UK | August 7, 2015 On the 27th anniversary of the crushing of the pro-democracy uprising on 8/8/88, Burma Campaign UK is calling on President Thein Sein, Speaker Shwe Mann, and all election candidates or potential Presidential [...]