By Nyein Nyein/Irrawaddy News | December 7, 2017 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — As the Tatmadaw has restricted the transportation of basic commodities in conflict-torn Tanai Township, Kachin State, locals have run out of fuel and are suffering a rice [...]
Sai Wansai/Shan Herald Agency for News | December 5, 2017 Recently, on December 1, a report from Radio Free Asia indicated that the parliament would soon debate and decide upon the designation of 135 ethnic groups categorization on whether [...]
Kachinland News | December 5, 2017 KIA frontline sources said Burmese army posts stationed in Momauk and Mansi Townships in southeastern Kachin state reportedly continued provocative shelling on their frontline positions. Bang Htan Ka Din-based 387th Light Infantry Regiment troops [...]
Tea Circle Oxford| December 4, 2017 Moegyo challenges the role of development/assistance in ethnic areas and provides recommendations for vetting. With the transition in 2011 to a new hybrid civilian-military government in Burma, a number of international development/assistance carpetbaggers – [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | December 4, 2017 Burma Army LIB 147 uses forced labor, loots food and requisitions civilian trucks during military operation against SSPP/SSA in Hsipaw During a military operation against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan [...]
Federal Government of Nagaland | November 30, 2017 To, Ram Nath Kovind, President of the Republic of India Honourable President, Time and again, regretfully, the Federal Government of Nagaland has to express Naga peoples feeling towards a dignitary of [...]
Angshuman Choudhury / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | November 30, 2017 On 11-12 November, a delegation of senior government officials led by the Union Minister for Border Affairs, Lieutenant-General Ye Aung, met with members of Burma’s largest ethnic armed organisation [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | November 28, 2017 More than 1,200 civilians from western Chin State have fled to neighbouring India as clashes renewed in Paletwa between Burmese government forces and the Arakan Army (AA), according to Indian [...]
By Victoria Milko / Frontier Myanmar | November 20, 2017 Food aid cuts have created further anxiety for more than 6,000 refugees and displaced people from Shan State who have endured a precarious existence for years in camps along [...]
Lahpai Seng Raw/Kachinland News | November 28, 2017 It has been a full 2 years since the landslide victory of the NLD in the 2015 elections, and the subsequent formation of a civilian-led government. At this point in time, [...]