Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation | July 13, 2016 Burma Army must be held accountable for extrajudicial killing of seven villagers in Mong Yaw Interviews carried out by SHRF with local witnesses show clearly that the Burma [...]
Karen Times | July 7, 2016 On June 17, a battalion commander from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army and twenty of his troops left their base and reunited with the Karen National Liberation Army, the military wing of the [...]
By Moe Gyo / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | July 13, 2016 Burma’s national League for Democracy (NLD) government has announced a 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC), scheduled for the end of August, to address the country’s decades-long [...]
By Saw Tun Lin / Karen News | July 12, 2016 Ku Oo Reh, leader of the Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) said that UNFC needs to continue discussions with the government. The Delegation for Political Negotiation led by [...]
Free Burma Rangers | July 12, 2016 The Burma Army is currently engaged in an escalating conflict in both northern Shan and Kachin states. The situation has left several dead, including a 22-year-old man killed by a landmine, and [...]
By Htet Khaung Linn / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | July 8, 2016 Za Hkawng, a 70-year-old ethnic Kachin man, prepares some tea in his small bamboo hut situated on a windy mountain ridge and recalls how he [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | July 7, 2016 Lately following the recent meeting between the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signatory 8 Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and Aung San Suu Kyi, de facto leader [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | July 6, 2016 Farmers in south-central Myanmar’s Bago region began a protest on Wednesday demanding that the army return more than 4,000 acres of land it confiscated from them 25 years ago. Nearly 30 [...]
By Mi Wonsa / Mon News Agency (MNA) | July 7, 2016 It is necessary to have all ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) involved in the 21st Century Panglong Conference, according to a statement released by the New Mon State [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | July 5, 2016 More Burmese army troops have been deployed near KIO’s administrative capital Laiza as tensions have escalated between Kachin Independence Army and Burmese Army. A KIA frontline officer said Burmese army made several [...]