Zoya Phan / Democratic Voice of Burma, September 17, 2013 For too many people in Burma, the sound of gunfire and mortar bombs is a familiar one. For decades the Burmese army has relentlessly attacked civilians in Burma’s ethnic [...]
Burma Partnership, September 16, 2013 Preliminary peace talks between the alliance of ethnic non-state armed groups, the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and the Burma government in Chiang Mai, Thailand, over the weekend of 8-9 September resulted in little [...]
Kachinland News, September 15, 2013 Battles continue to rage between KIA’s 12th and 27th Battalion troops and Burmese army’s 69th LIR, 522nd LIR, 221st LIR, 323rd LIB, and 240th LIR in KIA’s 12th Battalion area in southern Kachin State [...]
Burma Campaign UK, September 13, 2013 Burma Campaign UK today called on the British government to cancel plans to offer training to the Burmese Army, in light of the escalation of Burmese Army attacks in Kachin [...]
Salai Thant Sin / The Irrawaddy, September 11, 2013 More than 500 farmers are being prosecuted for illegally plowing land that was confiscated from them in Irrawaddy Division, rights activists say. Farmers from eight townships in the delta region—including [...]
Kachinland News, September 8, 2013 Nhka Ga village women gang raped and abandoned naked in the forest Burmese army troops gang raped Nhka Ga village women and abandoned them naked in the forest near Nhka Ga village in northern [...]
Khin Ohmar / Democratic Voice of Burma, September 6, 2013 One of the main hopes for Burma’s recent political reforms has been for a vibrant, open and flourishing civil society – a vital component of any healthy democracy and [...]
Eliza Villarino / Devex, August 29, 2013 Encouraged by Myanmar’s reform efforts, international donors have begun to shower the Asian country with aid. But not everyone appears to be benefiting from the growing interest of foreign investors. “Unfortunately, aid [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation, August 28, 2013 A woman working on her corn farm in Namtu township, northern Shan State, was wounded by shrapnel from a Burmese government mortar shell during fighting against the Shan State [...]
Karen News, August 28, 2013 Following on from his dramatic fact finding trip to Burma last week, when his car was attacked by religious fanatics, Mr Tomas Ojea Quintana, a United Nations special rapporteur on human rights, paid a [...]