September 2017
Burma Facing Biggest Human Right Crisis In Decades – British Government Response Pathetic
Burma Campaign UK (BCUK) | September 7, 2017 Burma Campaign UK today warned that Burma is undergoing its biggest human rights crisis in decades, which has in turn created a major humanitarian crisis. However, unlike [...]
IDP Camp Requests International Donors To Continue Providing Funds
By Karen Information Centre (KIC) / Burma News International (BNI) | September 6, 2017 An internally displaced persons camp in Kayin (Karen) State is making a last-ditch appeal for international donors to continue providing aid. [...]
Termination Of Humanitarian Aid: Shan Refugees In The Limbo
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | September 5, 2017 While the conflict situation in Arakan State is making international headlines, a little less known catastrophe in the making is brewing [...]
Fighting in Mae Tha Waw Continues to Displace Villagers Making it a Daily Struggle to Feed the 6,000 Homeless
By Karen News | September 4, 2017 Continued fighting between Karen armed groups are forcing more villages into all ready overcrowded displacement camps. Temporary shelters holding displaced villagers in Myaing Gyi Ngu have seen an [...]
Villagers Living In Fear Amid Increasing Burmese Military Incursions Into NMSP Controlled Areas
Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) | September 1, 2017 HURFOM: According to reports, Burmese military forces have increasingly trespassed into areas controlled by the New Mon State Party (NMSP) in Thaton Township, Mon State [...]
‘Talks Did Not Become Reality’: UPJDC Secretary Bemoans Lack Of Progress In Peace Process
By Min Aung Htoo Nai / Mon News Agency (MNA) / Burma News International (BNI) | August 31, 2017 Two years after the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement was signed in October 2015, the country’s peace process [...]
Bodies of 19 Rohingya Refugees Wash Ashore in Bangladesh
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | August 31, 2017 The bodies of 19 Rohingya refugees – nine women and 10 children – washed ashore Thursday in southeastern Bangladesh, local authorities said, as they struggled to control [...]
August 2017
Skirmishes Continue in Western and Southeastern Kachin State, Locals Forced to Serve as Guides For Burmese Army
By Naming Gam / Kachinland News | August 30, 2017 Skirmishes continue between Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Burmese army troops in western and southeastern Kachin State. A battle took place between KIA’s 14th Battalion [...]
Burma Army Raids Kasung Village
By Free Burma Rangers | August 28, 2017 Kasung Village Map On August 11th the Burma Army launched an unprovoked attack against civilians in Kasung Village, west of Myitkyina, Kachin State. At 1100 [...]
Myanmar’s Peace Process: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, Borderland Economies, Service Delivery, and other Post-Panglong Concerns
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | August 28, 2017 Myanmar’s Peace Process: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, Borderland Economies, Service Delivery, and other Post-Panglong Concerns (Part I) Editor’s Note: The following is the first part of a three [...]