April 2018
KNPP and Government will have official meeting in Loikaw
By Soe Thu Aung / Mizzima | April 26, 2018 The Peace Negotiation Committee (PNC) of Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and Peace Commission (PC) of National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) will have an [...]
Kachin Relative of Slain IDPs Flees After Tatmadaw Opens Case Against Her
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | April 25, 2018 A Kachin woman has gone into hiding after accusing the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) of killing two of her family members, apparently fearing detention by [...]
Lai Nawng Hku IDPs Detained by BA Troops
Kachinland News | April 24, 2018 IDPs who had fled from their village of Lai Nawng Hku, Hpakant township on April 10, are still being detained by BA troops at Lai Nawng Hku, in the [...]
Tatmadaw Using Ceasefire to Gain Upper Hand, KNLA Deputy Chief Says
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | April 24, 2018 Ethnic Karen need to adapt to new threats from the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw), according to the deputy chief of the Karen National Liberation Army [...]
Shelling of Village Sends Hundreds More Fleeing in Kachin
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 23, 2018 Clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) around a village in Mogaung Township, Kachin State, have sent more than 800 [...]
Kachin IDP Released from Prison After Being Tortured and Wrongfully Convicted for Many Years
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | April 20, 2018 A local Kachin internally displaced person (IDP), U Lahpai Gum, has been released under the presidential amnesty on April 17 after being wrongfully convicted and [...]
Kachin Chief Minister Says Fleeing Villagers Can Return Home, While Army Says They Must Leave Tanaing
By Kyaw Myo Min, Khin Khin Ei and Nay Rein Kyaw / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | April 19, 2018 Some 2,000 civilians in Myanmar’s war-torn Kachin state trapped in Tanaing township amid fighting between [...]
Myanmar NGO Asks Kachin State Chief Minister to Help Rescue Villagers Displaced by War
By Thet Su Aung / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | April 19, 2018 A Myanmar NGO has sent a letter to the head of the war-torn Kachin state government calling for the rescue of civilians [...]
36 Political Prisoners Included in Thingyan Presidential Amnesty
By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 18, 2018 Thirty-six political prisoners were among a total of 8,490 inmates released yesterday from jails across the country as a traditional gesture of amnesty [...]
An Estimated 2,000 Kachin Villagers Flee to Jungle as Clashes Hit Tanai Township
By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 16, 2018 Armed clashes between Burmese government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have left about 2,000 ethnic Kachin villagers homeless in Tanai Township [...]