Mizzima, March 24, 2014
Nearly 3,000 people marched in six townships throughout Myanmar in simultaneous protests held on March 23 to demand amendments to the constitution. The biggest of the marches, in Yangon’s […]
Shwe Yee Win Htet / Mizzima, March 24, 2014
About 100 people have begun a march of about 1,200kilometres (750 miles) from Yangon to the site of the controversial Myitsone Dam in Kachin State […]
Burma Link, March 25, 2014 Fire broke out in Mae La refugee camp last night at around 9.30 pm in Zone B Section 4 and 5. No one has been reported injured. The fire destroyed 18 houses while further [...]
Andrew D. Kaspar / The Irrawaddy, March 24, 2014 RANGOON — Burma’s military continues to target civilians in its operations against rebel armed groups in the country, according to a report released Monday by a US-based human rights institute, [...]
Burma Link, March 22, 2014 One died and two were injured in Bum Tsit Pa IDP camp, Kachin State, when a plastic tent caught fire early yesterday morning. Following the tragic incident, camp residents and aid workers are calling [...]
Karen News, March 20, 2014 The European Burma Network has added its voice to a large and growing coalition of political, humanitarian and community organisations calling on Burma’s government to postpone the country’s national census that is set to [...]
Burma Link | March 20, 2014 The Back Pack Health Worker Team (BPHWT) is a multi-ethnic community-based organisation that has been providing primary healthcare in the conflict and rural areas of Burma for over 15 years. The teams deliver [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation, March 17, 2014 Over 1,000 Burmese government troops fired shells and sprayed gunfire into villages in Nawng Khio township, severely tortured a villager, and looted livestock, causing about 2,000 villagers from eleven villages to flee [...]
Free Burma Rangers, 17 March 2014 / Kachin State, Burma
We went to the Pang Say area of Nam Kham Township, northern Shan State. Here there were opium fields around every village that we encountered. […]
Roland Watson / Dictator Watch, March 16, 2014 There is now a desperate push by Burma's military dictatorship, including one of its public faces, the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC), and also ethnic traitors, to complete a nationwide ceasefire by [...]
