November 2017
Land Disputes Made up 90% of Complaint Letters Sent to Karen State Parliament
By Saw Myat Oo Thar/Karen News | November 16, 2017 Complaint letters received by Karen State parliament related to land issues dominated all other concerns over the 10-month period from January to October 2017. A government [...]
Mae Tao Clinic Facing Funding Shortages as Border Aid Dries Up
By Kaelyn Lynch/Karen News | November 15, 2017 Dr. Cynthia’s Mae Tao Clinic is struggling to keep helping patients as donors to the Thai-Burma border stop funding. Mae Tao Clinic is appealing for help as [...]
AA Disputes Tatmadaw’s Account of Deadly Chin State Ambush
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint/The Irrawaddy | November 14, 2017 In an interview with The Irrawaddy, a spokesman for the Arakan Army (AA) has claimed the group was defending its territory during an attack on a [...]
Commentary on “As Expectations Fade, is the Peace Process in Crisis?”
By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald Agency for News | November 13, 2017 The only way to resolve the armed conflict or silenced the gun fire is to change the hybrid civilian-military to pure civilian rule. In [...]
Hearing Ethnic Voices on Myitsone
Yanghee Lee & Debby Sze Wan Chan/Frontier Myanmar | November 11, 2017 An inclusive and deliberative approach to addressing the Myitsone Dam dispute can showcase the government’s commitment to genuine change as well as the [...]
‘It Will Not Be a Good Situation if We Are Forced to Sign the NCA’: NMSP Vice Chairman
By Lawi Weng/The Irrawaddy | November 8, 2017 The New Mon State Party (NMSP) has an isolated armed group in the southern part on the country in Mon State. The group has not signed the [...]
Karen Orgs Voice Opposition to Development Projects that Plunder Ceasefire Areas
By Saw Shar/Karen News | November 7, 2017 Karen organizations are accusing the government of abusing the ceasefire process to take advantage of investment opportunities with little regard for potential consequences to the environment or [...]
Letters from 58 NGOs Calling for Targeted Economic Sanctions in Burma
Burma Campaign UK | November 3, 2017 November 2, 2017 The Honorable Rex Tillerson Secretary of State U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 The Honorable Steven Mnuchin Secretary of the [...]
UPDJC Gathering And Government-Ethnic Armies Meetings: All-inclusivity and Accommodation Keys to National Unity and Reconciliation
By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald News Agency | November 1, 2017 Two important meetings that would likely help move forward the stalled peace process were held between the government’s Peace Council (PC) and the United Nationalities [...]
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Eyes 2018 for Establishing Basic Principles of the Future Federal Union
By Min Aung Htoo Naing/Mon News Agency | November 1, 2017 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has set a 2018 deadline for drawing the hotly contested fault lines of ethnic political autonomy in Myanmar’s future federal [...]