June 2017
World Refugee Day 2017: “We’re Stuck in a Hard Place – We Can’t Go Home… and Service Cuts Make it Hard for Us to Live in the Camps…”
Saw Mort and Saw Soe Doh / Karen News | June 21, 2017 Thousands of refugees living in camps on the Thai Burma gathered at an event to mark World Refugee Day on June, 20. [...]
Position of Karen Student Network Group on Repatriation June 20, 2017
Karen Student Network Group (KSNG) | June 20, 2017 INTRODUCTION From 26-28 September 2016, Karen Student Network Group (KSNG) organized a consultation on refugee return during its 21st General Annual Meeting held in Mae La [...]
Over 100 people From Ei Tu Hta IDP Camp to Return Home
Burma News International (BNI) | June 19, 2017 With only rice to eat and no work opportunities to be had, families sheltering at the Ei Tu Hta Internally Displaced Persons Camp in Kayin (Karen) State [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Canadian Visit Exposes Media Blind Spots in Reporting Burma
Saw Lay Khu Wah / Karen News | June 15, 2017 Anyone working for social justice in Burma should be disappointed by the mainstream media’s coverage of Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit to Canada last [...]
Karen Community Claims Suu Kyi’s Canada Trip Fails to Address War, Displacement, Refugees or Militarization
Karen News | June 13, 2017 As Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s State Counsellor, concluded her Canadian tour in Toronto, members of the Karen community claimed she failed to discuss the countries armed conflict, [...]
Workers Abandon Kachin Mines Due to Military Threat
Paing Soe / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | June 12, 2017 Hundreds of workers and their families have abandoned the gold and amber mines in Tanai, northern Kachin State, following threats from the Burmese [...]
Zipporah Sein Questions KNU’s Commitment to Accord
By Naw Doreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | June 9, 2017 A rival faction of the Karen National Union (KNU) has expressed skepticism over the Karen leadership’s agreement to a so-called “Union Accord” [...]
Six-Year Battle With No End in Sight
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | June 9, 2017 RANGOON — Since September 2011 to date, fighting has been on and off in Kachin Independence Army (KIA)-controlled areas in northern and northeastern Burma, particularly [...]
UPDATE: Kachin IDPs Once Again Prove Their Resiliency
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | June 8, 2017 Kachin State, Burma Due to heavy fighting and military offensives conducted by the Burma Army into Kachin Independence Army (KIA) held areas, especially since August 2016, the lives [...]
Burmese Army Seized KIA’s Mai Sak Post, 3 Civilians Injured In Mortar Attacks
Kachinland News (KLN) | June 5, 2017 About 50 soldiers from Burmese army’s 126th Light Infantry Regiment launched an attack on KIA 14th Battalion’s Mai Sak Post in Danai Township on June 3 at around [...]