Min Paing, Mon News Agency (MNA) | April 11, 2016 Over 16,000 acres of land across Mon State’s 10 townships was returned by Tatmadaw [army] and respective government departments, according to the State Land Utilization Management Committee. According to [...]
Saw Yan Naing, The Irrawaddy | April 7, 2016 Burma’s long-established ethnic Karen armed organization, the Karen National Union (KNU), has been preparing land and shelter for the possible return of civilians displaced internally and on the Thai-Burma border [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | April 2, 2016. As Burma’s first civilian government in half a century took office this week, conflict remains ongoing in the country’s largest state. Burma’s military known as the Tatmadaw, has clashed [...]
The Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) | March 31, 2016. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, The Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) urgently requests the international community to assist with the protection of civilians in Northern Shan State. Since February [...]
Aik Sai / Mon News Agency (MNA) | April 2, 2016. Seven ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) have agreed to join defenses unless their aggressors cease attacks against ethnic armed groups in northern Shan State, according to a statement released [...]
Statement by Health Convergence Core Group | March 30, 2016 More than ninety delegates from Burma's ethnic health organizations, border-based community health organizations, medical professionals, academics, lawyers, women and youth organizations, education, environment, and other community-based organizations have held a [...]
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | February 29, 2016 Free Burma Rangers recently finished a mission to document opium production in Chin State, Burma. Chin State is not widely known in Burma for its production of opium. With the recent [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | March 23, 2016. Since the beginning of the first week of March, Burmese army troops escalated their presence in villages across northern Shan State. Villagers in Kutkai, Theinni, Nam San, Kyauk Me, Nam Kham, and [...]
PSLF/TNLA | March 18, 2016 In early March 2016, the Burmese Tamadaw began sending enforcement including weaponries in the Ta’ang armed organization’s administration area and continues today. The Tamadaw gravely violated human rights at that area; 87 people were [...]
S'Phan Shaung / Karen News | March 17, 2016. A coalition of Karen environmental community based groups, the Karen River Watch, joined with local villagers to protest the building of hydro-power dams on the Salween River. The protesters called [...]