July 2018
Shan residents concerned over military reinforcements in Mong Kung area
Shan Herald Agency for News / BNI Online | July 12, 2018 The Tatmadaw has been reinforcing a large number of troops in both Hispaw and Mong Kung townships in the southern Shan State and [...]
National Solidarity Should Be Built Through Equality, Not Military Pressure – KNU Says
By Saw Tun Linn / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | July 12, 2018 National solidarity should be built in the union through freedom, equality, and justice between the ethnic people and not through [...]
Karenni Youth Activists Sued Over Aung San Statue Protest
By San Yamin Aung / The Irrawaddy | July 11, 2018 YANGON — Sixteen ethnic Karenni youth activists were sued on Tuesday for organizing a protest against plans to erect a statue of late independence [...]
Ahead of Peace Conference, over 500 Shan locals flee from Tatmadaw’s offensives against RCSS
Shan Herald Agency for News / BNI Online | July 11, 2018 Over 500 rural residents have fled their homes due to the Tatmadaw’s military offensive against the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army [...]
Tatmadaw Attacks RCSS Location in Mong Kung on Eve of Peace Conference
Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | July 10, 2018 MON STATE — The Myanmar Army attacked a base of the RCSS/SSA-South in Shan State’s Mong Kung Township on Monday after warning the group to go [...]
We are tired of the civil war: Standing up for peace and democracy
By Thinzar Shunlei Yi and Sut Seng Htoi / Mizzima | July 10, 2018 Myanmar has a proud history of peaceful protests. Exercising the right to the freedom of peaceful assembly in the face of [...]
Karenni State Puts Hold on Aung San Statue to Gauge Public Opinion
By Saw Yamin Aung / The Irrawaddy | July 9, 2018 YANGON — The Karenni State government has postponed controversial plans to erect a statue of independence hero General Aung San in the state capital, [...]
400 Returned IDPs Facing Food Shortages in Kachin State
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | July 9, 2018 Two local Kachin aid groups have appealed to other aid organizations to help provide food for almost 400 ethnic Kachin IDPs who returned to their [...]
Farmers in Tanintharyi Stage Protest Against Shwe Kanbawza Oil-Palm Company
By De Moe Thway / Mizzima | July 9, 2018 More than 200 farmers from six villages in Tanintharyi Township, Myeik District, Tanintharyi Region, on Sunday morning staged a protest march urging authorities and Shwe [...]
War, Flooding, and the Civilians Impacted in Northern Burma – June Report
Free Ranger Burma | July 3, 2018 The 23 military actions that the Kachin Independence Army provided record of during June in Kachin and Northern Shan States are a significant reduction of hostilities comparative to [...]