March 2014
Calling for Safer Shelters: One Dead and Two Injured in Kachin IDP Camp Fire
Burma Link, March 22, 2014 One died and two were injured in Bum Tsit Pa IDP camp, Kachin State, when a plastic tent caught fire early yesterday morning. Following the tragic incident, camp residents and [...]
Burma Army Shelling of Villages, Torture, Looting Cause 2,000 Villagers to Flee Their Homes
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 [...]
Opium, Logging and Gas: The Burma Army’s Predatory Rule Over the People of Burma
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. […]International Rivers Day: Halt the Salween River Projects
Karen News on Vimeo, March 14, 2014 Tens of thousands of people from Shan, Karenni, Karen and Mon State joined with over 100 civil society organisations and political parties to issue a petition on International [...]
FBR Video Man Shot by Burma Army
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. […]
Opium Cultivation Escalates: PaO Youth Organization
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). [...]
February 2014
Burma Army Attacks Displaced 3,000 Palaung Civilians: Rights Group
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 Plight of Internally Displaced Kachin War Victims
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 [...]
Ethnicity Data From Burma Census Could Be Political, Groups Warn
Yen Snaing / The Irrawaddy, February 21, 2014 RANGOON — Ethnic groups and civil society organizations are raising concerns that data gathered on ethnicity in Burma’s upcoming census could be used for political purposes. A [...]
New Report Details Continuing Human Rights Violations by Burmese Military Against Its Citizens
ND-Burma, February 11, 2014 ND-Burma has published its second periodic report covering the second period of 2013 and focuses on 106 documented cases of human rights violations in Burma from July to December 2013. There [...]