By Htet Naing Zaw / The Irrawaddy | January 24, 2017 NAYPYIDAW — The Peace Process Steering Team (PPST)—a committee representing the eight ethnic armed groups that signed the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA)—called on State Counselor Daw Aung San [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | January 24, 2017 Burma’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has held a meeting with representatives of the various ethnic armed groups that are signatories to the country’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). According to [...]
Mizzima | January 21, 2017 The United Nations has released Ms Yanghee Lee's end of mission statement following her 12-day visit to Myanmar, a visit with special focus on rights in the Rakhine and Kachin states. Her speech was [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | January 19, 2017 Burmese government forces say they have captured three bases from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), including its local base command in Bhamo District, southern Kachin State. According to yesterday’s report [...]
The Irrawaddy | January 17, 2017 Following the first meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference in August, fighting intensified in northeastern Burma, and negotiations between the government and the ethnic alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) stalled. [...]
By Tsa Doi La & Nmang Gam / Kachinland News (KLN) | January 16, 2017 Two Burmese fighter jets Sunday pounded KIA’s 12th Battalion Headquarters at Man Gau in Mansi Township around 12:15 p.m. A cluster bomb dropped from [...]
By Kyaw Ko Ko / Myanmar Times | January 17, 2017 Scores of internally displaced persons (IDP) from the ethnic Palaung community are in dire need of food and medical supplies after they fled Namhsan amid fierce fighting between the military and armed [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | January 16, 2017 Three civilians were killed and seven injured, including two women and a five-year-old child, when two Burma Army jets indiscriminately bombed Pang Mark Mur village, Kyaukme township, northern Shan State, [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | January 10, 2017 More Kachin Independence Army (KIA) outposts near the Lai Hpawng position that the ethnic armed group previously held in Waingmaw township, Kachin State, were captured by Burma Army troops on Sunday, [...]
By Sai Wansai / Kachinland News (KLN) | January 7, 2017 As 2017 begins, speculation and assessment on which way Burma’s political wind might be blowing becomes an important task to determine for stakeholders and opinion-makers alike, in order [...]