Statement by United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | January 27, 2017 The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) Central Executive Committee emergency meeting was held from January 23 to 25, 2017 at a location on the Thai-Burma border. At the [...]
Mizzima | January 29, 2017 A prominent lawyer and legal advisor of Myanmar's ruling party was shot dead along with a taxi driver outside Yangon's international airport on Sunday, officials said. Ko Ni, a member of Aung San Suu [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News | January 27, 2017 Why is it so hard for the Tatmadaw to accept all-inclusive participation of all the ethnic armies that have been its adversaries or enemies? Isn’t making [...]
By Tsa Doi La / Kachinland News | January 27, 2017 Burmese army troops belonging to 86th Light Infantry Battalion(LIB) have forcibly been confiscating civilian homes in Du Kawng quarter in Danai township in western Kachin state since January 26, [...]
Joint Strategy Team | January 25, 2017 Intense fighting continues in Kachin State between the Myanmar Government Armed Forces (Tatmadaw)and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Recent fighting in late December 2016 and early January 2017 in Nagyang area has [...]
By Wunna Kwanyo / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | January 26, 2017 Locals in Arakan State’s Minbya Township say Tatmadaw troops have been raiding their homes and questioning villagers for alleged ties to the Arakan Army, which is [...]
Radio Free Asia | January 25, 2017 Police in Muse township in Myanmar’s northern Shan state have opened a case against two Kachin Christian leaders, charging them with illegal association under a controversial colonial-era act, a local police official [...]
By Tsa Doi La / Kachinland News | January 26, 2017 In Kachin State, clashes reportedly erupted between KIA’s 6th Battalion troops under 2nd Brigade and Burmese army troops belonging to 261st Light Infantry Battalion(LIB) along the road leading [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | January 25, 2017 The nationwide ceasefire groups are showing increasing anxiety and impatience over the brass tacks of the peace process. The eight ethnic armed groups party to the Nationwide Ceasefire [...]
Mizzima | January 25, 2017 An emergency meeting of the central executive committee of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on Monday and Tuesday, state media reported on 25 January. Present at the [...]