By Aik Sai / Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA) | October 22, 2016 Since only ethnic armed groups that inked nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) are allowed to lead the national level political discourses, problems will surely arise for those leading the [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | October 20, 2016. “Do not put your trust in man. Rather, trust the constitution that we will be drafting.” These were the very words that Bogyoke Aung San used to address the deep mistrust expressed by [...]
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) | October 20, 2016 This detailed commentary examines ongoing militarisation in southeast Myanmar from 2014 to 2016. It includes villager's perspectives on military presence in and near villages; ongoing rotation of troops, re-supply of [...]
Joint Statement by 16 Rohingya Organisations | October 21, 2016 After attacks on police posts, on 9 October, allegedly by unknown Rohingya fighters, Myanmar authorities have disproportionally militarized Northern Arakan/Rakhine state raising a false alarm and creating human tragedies aim [...]
By Ka Saw Wah/ Burma News International (BNI) | October 21, 2016 Over 1,000 Karen refugees who fled from Mae Tha Wor in Karen State to Karen villages close to the border with Thailand after fighting in September face [...]
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint/ The Irrawaddy | October 21, 2016 The Burma Army has stopped a local environmentalist group from sending food relief to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township on suspicion that the supplies were [...]
By Naw Noreen/ Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | October 20, 2016 Ninety residents of the Nu Po refugee camp in Thailand’s Tak Province are set to return to Burma next week in the first round of official repatriations for refugees [...]
By Thu Thu Aung / Myanmar Times | October 20, 2016 Two villagers from the Mong Si village tract of Shan State’s Kutkai township were detained on October 17 because police suspected that they were providing food to members of [...]
By Ka Hsaw Wah/ Karen News | October 20, 2016 Soldiers from the breakaway Democratic Karen Buddhist Army clashed with the government militia, the Border Guard Force, in Htee Poe Zan village tract near Kawkareik at noon on October 19. [...]
Mizzima | October 19, 2016 The government has agreed to four out of eight points demanded by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and accepted the remaining four points inprinciple and as a result, the Delegation for Political Negotiation [...]