KP / Shan Herald Agency for News, May 9, 2013 It is reported that today early morning Burma Army launched an attack against Shan bases on the Mao (Shweli) valley on the Sino-Burmese border, resulting in local people over [...]
Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) and Ta’ang Student and Youth Organization (TSYO), May 6, 2013 Summary: Since January 2013, Burmese government troops have been carrying out military offensives in Palaung areas against the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N), [...]
Kachinland News, May 3, 2013 Battles continued to rage between Burmese army and ethnic armed groups – Kachin Independence Army, Shan State Army (North) and Ta-ang National Liberation Army – in northern Shan State. Local Shan, Palaung, Kachin and [...]
Saw Eh Na / Karen News, May 4, 2013 Land confiscation of property belonging to villagers by developers and government officials in Tenasserim Division has become a complicated issue for the Karen National Union (KNU) during its peace-building process [...]
Saw Khar Su Nyar (KIC) / Karen News, May 2, 2013 For the first time since 1974 the Burma government has met with the Karen Refugee Committee in Hpa-an Town. The government put forward its plan to KRC that [...]
Paul Vrieze / The Irrawaddy, May 2, 2013 RANGOON—A US government commission has recommended that Burma remains on a State Department blacklist of 15 governments in the world that are responsible for “systematic, ongoing, egregious violations of freedom of [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News, May 2, 2013 Most of the Burma Army Light Infantry Divisions (LIDs) and Military Operations Commands (MOCs), the backbone of Ministry of Defense (Army), are now in frontlines positioning themselves in the ethnic armed [...]
United Nationalities Federal Council, April 21, 2013 The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) urges the European Union (EU) to maintain the current level of sanctions on Burma until the Government of Burma takes further steps to demonstrate [...]
Saw Khar Su Nyar (KIC) / Karen News, April 30, 2013 The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) based at a monastery in Myaing Gyi Ngu village, Hlaing Bwe Township, Karen State, was twice attacked by a the Border Guard [...]
S’Phan Shaung (KIC) / Karen News, April 30, 2013 Despite a ceasefire in place, a Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) report criticizes a government-controlled militia, the Border Guard Force (BGF), for committing human right violations against villagers in Papun [...]