Karen News, March 20, 2014 The European Burma Network has added its voice to a large and growing coalition of political, humanitarian and community organisations calling on Burma’s government to postpone the country’s national census that is set to [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation, March 17, 2014 Over 1,000 Burmese government troops fired shells and sprayed gunfire into villages in Nawng Khio township, severely tortured a villager, and looted livestock, causing about 2,000 villagers from eleven villages to flee [...]
Free Burma Rangers, 17 March 2014 / Kachin State, Burma
We went to the Pang Say area of Nam Kham Township, northern Shan State. Here there were opium fields around every village that we encountered. […]
Roland Watson / Dictator Watch, March 16, 2014 There is now a desperate push by Burma's military dictatorship, including one of its public faces, the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC), and also ethnic traitors, to complete a nationwide ceasefire by [...]
Burma Campaign UK, March 14, 2014 28 Karen community organisations from 11 countries are writing to the United Nations Population Fund and their respective governments, expressing deep concern over Burma’s upcoming census, and calling for it [...]
Free Burma Rangers, March 12, 2014 / Karen State, Burma
Saw Shae Say, one of our Rangers, was shot by the Burma Army on 18 February 2014 while attempting to video their advance into Karen State. […]
Shan Herald Agency for News, March 12, 2014 Poppy cultivation in areas where PaO, a non-Shan nationality, are dominant, has been steadily climbing since 2010, according to a study by the PaO Youth Organization (PYO). The PaO, who are [...]
Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy, February 25, 2014 RANGOON — An ethnic Palaung women’s group has urged the Burma Army to cease its attacks on a Palaung rebel group in northern Shan State, saying that the local population suffered [...]
Pangmu Shayi / DVB, February 24, 2014 The fresh outbreak of armed clashes between the Burma Army and forces of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and its ramifications on the government’s peace negotiations with ethnic armed groups are bound [...]
Moegyo, February 18, 2014 Why - Am I raped, beaten, and imprisoned? Must I porter for the Tatmadaw? Did I lose my leg because of a landmine? Must I hide in the jungle? Can’t I get medical care and an education?