August 2018
Tatmadaw Cracks down on Posters Celebrating 71st Mon Revolution Day
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | August 24, 2018 MON STATE—The Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) has ordered that signboards announcing this weekend’s commemoration of the 71st Mon Revolution Day be taken down or changed, [...]
Refugee Camps: First It Was Funding Cuts to Food, Education, Healthcare and Social Work – Now 1,000 Administration Workers to Feel Donors Razor
By Sa Isue / Karen News | August 23, 2018 The Karen Refugee Committee claim huge cuts to funding for administration of the Thai-Burma border refugee camps makes it impossible for more than 1,000 camp [...]
BGF Station Commander Saw Mote Thon Urges Understanding Between Karen Armed Groups
By Sa Isue / Karen Informational Center / BNI Online | August 23, 2018 Major Saw Mote Thon from the Border Guard Forces (BGF) Battalion 1022 in the Karen (Kayin) State said better understanding is [...]
Lashio Locals Flee Clashes Between Tatmadaw, TNLA
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | August 22, 2018 People fled after hearing gunfire and after soldiers from both sides reportedly entered their village in the Mong Yaw area. Troops [...]
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
Karen News on Vimeo | August 22, 2018 The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples event was held for the first time in northern Karen State, Burma. Karen environmentalists and Karen community demand Burma [...]
TNLA and Tatmadaw Have 15 Clashes After 21st Panglong Conference
By Soe Thu Aung / Mizzima | August 21, 2018 The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Tatmadaw (government military) have had 15 clashes since the completion of the third session of 21st Century Panglong [...]
Group Demands TNLA Release Shan Woman Taken from Her Home in Namkham
By Lawi Weng and Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | August 20, 2018 MON STATE — A youth group based in Namkham Township in northern Shan State has condemned the Ta’ang National Liberation [...]
Gunfire Fight Ensues Between Northern Alliance, Tatmadaw near Lashio
By Hom Heim / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | August 20, 2018 The clashes took place in Mong Yaw for two hours on Friday morning. Gunfire was exchanged between soldiers from the Burma [...]
Drug Abuse Leaves Many Palaung Women to Fend for Their Families
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | August 17, 2018 MONGYAW — Recently, I happened to be in Palaung ethnic villages in Monyaw—a sub-township some 60 miles from the urban areas of Lashio [...]
China’s Mediation of Northern Alliance and the Tatmadaw
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | August 16, 2018 It is quite well known and already an accepted fact that China is doing everything to reconcile the warring parties involving [...]