Burma Link | August 19th, 2015 Through the Eyes of an Internally Displaced Rohingya The Rohingya, often referred to as one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, live in the Arakan State (also known as Rakhine state) in Western [...]
Update by the Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | August 14, 2015 Indiscriminate Burma Army Shelling Near SSPP/SSA Headquarters Endangers Thousands of Villagers On August 7, 2015, while critical nationwide ceasefire talks were taking place in Yangon, the Burma Army fired [...]
Maung Zarni / DVB | August 12, 2015 Last week, the ninth round of ceasefire negotiations between Burma’s quasi-civilian government and the negotiators representing the country’s Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) ended without any conclusive agreement in Rangoon. Now the Burmese [...]
Statement by the AA (Arakan Army), PSLF (Palaung State Liberation Front), and MNDAA (Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army) | August 5, 2015 The Ethnic Armed Organizations’ (EAOs) Senior Delegation (SD) and the Union Peace-making Work Committee (UPWC) begins the [...]
Tim Heinemann | August 5, 2015 The time has come for ethnic leaders of Burma to directly engage American leaders at all levels of public and private sector before it is too late. After listening to the rational viewpoint [...]
Press release by the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) and Burma Partnership | July 24, 2015 [Chiang Mai – 24 July 2015] The Burma Government must immediately cease the targeting, oppressing, stifling, controlling and silencing of human rights [...]
Burma Link | July 21, 2015 The Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) Day was celebrated at the KNDO Headquarters in the Karen State on July 16, 2015. The KNDO, one of the world’s oldest existing revolutionary armed groups, was [...]
Melanie Keyte / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | 17 July 2015 Close to the Burmese-Thai border, young Karenni refugees study desperately to gain acceptance into universities worldwide. But with talks of repatriation echoing through the camps, it’s unsure how [...]
Karen Women's Organization (KWO) | July 8, 2015 The Karen Women’s Organization (“KWO”) collected information regarding continuing serious human rights abuses perpetrated by the Burma Army in all seven districts in Karen State from January to June 2015. Our [...]
Burma Link | July 14, 2015 Only a few months ago, the clinic in Halockhani, a Mon internally displaced person (IDP) village in southeast Burma, was collapsing. Anyone walking through the worn out building would have to watch out [...]