Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | April 23, 2018 The rape and brutal slashing of a 73-year-old woman by a Burma Army soldier near Mong Phyak town, eastern Shan State, on April 2, 2018, highlights the vulnerability of women [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | April 20, 2018 A local Kachin internally displaced person (IDP), U Lahpai Gum, has been released under the presidential amnesty on April 17 after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to eight years [...]
Legal Aid Network (LAN) | April 19, 2018 1. On April 13, the office of the State Counsellor, headed by Aung San Suu Kyi, issued a press release arguing that there can be no ICC jurisdiction in the Rohingya [...]
By Kyaw Myo Min, Khin Khin Ei and Nay Rein Kyaw / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | April 19, 2018 Some 2,000 civilians in Myanmar’s war-torn Kachin state trapped in Tanaing township amid fighting between the national army and [...]
By Thet Su Aung / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | April 19, 2018 A Myanmar NGO has sent a letter to the head of the war-torn Kachin state government calling for the rescue of civilians trapped in a battle [...]
By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 18, 2018 Thirty-six political prisoners were among a total of 8,490 inmates released yesterday from jails across the country as a traditional gesture of amnesty by the president to [...]
By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 16, 2018 Armed clashes between Burmese government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have left about 2,000 ethnic Kachin villagers homeless in Tanai Township as they abandoned their [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | April 11, 2018 Residents who have been displaced by the fighting between the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army – South (RCSS/SSA-S) and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) will return [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | April 11, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand – The Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, has denied wrongdoing in the killing of a man in Ler Mu Plaw area, Papun district, Karen State, claiming he was [...]
By Chit Min Tun / The Irrawaddy | April 10, 2018 YANGON — Nearly a month since the latest round of fighting broke out between two ethnic armed groups in northern Shan State, displaced families have yet to return [...]