Mon News Agency (MNA) / Burma News International (BNI) | May 31, 2017 At least one ethnic political party is fuming after an accord was signed last week at the closing of peace talks that were poorly attended. The [...]
Kachinland News | May 31, 2017 Three Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Mung Hkawng IDP Camp were abducted and killed by Burmese army’s 319th Light Infantry Regiment (LIR) soldiers. Locals assured Tatmadaw soldiers had committed the killing as [...]
Burma Link | May 31, 2017 Over many years, General Baw Kyaw Heh, Vice Chief-of-Staff of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), has been defending the Karen State and working towards [...]
By Sai Aw / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 29, 2017 Residents in northern Shan State’s Namtu Township are currently living in fear of intensified armed conflict between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 29, 2017 The second Union Peace Conference – 21stCentury Panglong (UPC-21CP) was held by the National League for Democracy (NLD) government from May 24 until 29, one [...]
Burma Link | May 30, 2017 Naw Lay Lit Ray Thaw comes from a Karen village in a non-government controlled area of Karen National Union (KNU) Brigade 6 in Karen State, southeast Burma, where she grew up with her [...]
Burma Link, Karen Student Network Group (KSNG) and Karen Youth Organisation (KYO) | May 30, 2017 This advocacy video is a short version of the full feature documentary film “Unrecognised Leaders, Tomorrow’s Hope” by Burma Link, Karen Student Network [...]
By Pyae Thet Phyo and Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | May 29, 2017 The government and ethnic armed groups have failed to reach an agreement on the issues of secession and self-determination in the final day of [...]
By Sithu Aung Myint / Frontier Myanmar | May 28, 2017 Constitutional reform was once the overriding priority of the National League for Democracy but the party has put the issue on the back burner since it formed government. [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | May 26, 2017 As hundreds of delegates gather in Naypyidaw this week for a high-level peace summit, a spokesman for the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has said his people are ready to [...]