By Kantarawaddy Times / BNI Online | April 6, 2017 An alliance of ethnic armed groups has said it will not attend the long-delayed second Panglong Conference unless its members first sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement. The now repeatedly postponed [...]
By Sai Aw | Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | April 6, 2017 The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) – a coalition of 12 ethnic armed groups that declined to sign the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) with the [...]
Free Burma Rangers (FRB) | April 3, 2017 In Kachin and northern Shan states, checkpoints are a routine part of life. Along roadways, civilians endure extensive searches of their personal belongings and shipments of supplies, and are frequently forced to [...]
Joint Strategy Team | April 5, 2017 Escalating armed conflict in Kachin between the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and Kachin Independence Army (KIA) during November 2016 to January 2017 caused renewed displacement for 6,066 already internally displaced persons (IDPs) [...]
By Myo Pyae Thin Htet Htet Naing / Mizzima | April 4, 2017 Myanmar needs to take about 30 years to eradicate landmines in the entire country, said the Humanitarian Mine Action Initiative (Myanmar) chairman Thant Zin. He was speaking [...]
By Sean Gleeson / Frontier | April 3, 2017 YANGON — The government’s most important non-state partner in the peace process risks a return to the conflict that brutalised Myanmar’s east for decades without a stronger commitment to political dialogue [...]
By Sai Wansai | Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | April 2, 2017 What has happened on March 30 when State counselor Aung San Suu Kyi hurriedly issued a statement on the heels of her televised speech assessment [...]
Frontier Myanmar | April 2, 2017 UPDATED 5:30pm The Union Election Commission has confirmed the National League for Democracy’s upset loss in the Pyithu Hluttaw seat of Chaungzon following Saturday’s by-elections. The NLD government’s decision to name a bridge [...]
By KIC / Burma News International (BNI) | March 31, 2017 After extensive discussions and over a week of debates, the Karen National Union finally has a new charter setting out its governing principles and administration. The KNU, one [...]
By Saw Yan Naing / The Irrawaddy | March 31, 2017 Burma’s longest running ethnic armed organization, the Karen National Union (KNU), began its struggle with a clear political purpose. It was starting a “revolution,” and under revolutionary circumstances, [...]