June 2017
Coalmine Has No Impact, Says Natural Resources Minister
Sai Aw / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | June 2, 2017 Burma’s Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation Ohn Win told parliament on Wednesday that a controversial coalmining project in Mong Kung [...]
KNU Support Displaced Villagers Demand for the Closure and Redeployment of 17 Burma Army Camps and Soldiers
Sa Isue / Karen News | June 1, 2017 The Karen National Union’s Mutraw District office released a statement supporting the demands of the displaced villagers living on the banks of the Salween River. The [...]
MNP Criticizes Signing of Union Accord
Mon News Agency (MNA) / Burma News International (BNI) | May 31, 2017 At least one ethnic political party is fuming after an accord was signed last week at the closing of peace talks that [...]
May 2017
Displaced Karen Demand Myanmar Army Leave Their Ancestral Lands
Karen News on Vimeo | May 30, 2017 On the same day the 2nd 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference is taking place in Nay Pyi Taw, a group of 2590 displaced Karen people in [...]
Three Kachin IDPs Abducted and Killed by 319th Light Infantry Regiment Troops
Kachinland News | May 31, 2017 Three Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Mung Hkawng IDP Camp were abducted and killed by Burmese army’s 319th Light Infantry Regiment (LIR) soldiers. Locals assured Tatmadaw soldiers had [...]
Namtu Villagers Live in Fear of TNLA, RCSS Conflict
By Sai Aw / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 29, 2017 Residents in northern Shan State’s Namtu Township are currently living in fear of intensified armed conflict between the Ta’ang National Liberation [...]
Second 21st Century Panglong: Pangkham, Secession and One National Army Issues Dominated the Political Landscape
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 29, 2017 The second Union Peace Conference – 21stCentury Panglong (UPC-21CP) was held by the National League for Democracy (NLD) government from May [...]
Secession, Self-Determination Haunt Second Round of Panglong Conference
By Pyae Thet Phyo and Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | May 29, 2017 The government and ethnic armed groups have failed to reach an agreement on the issues of secession and self-determination in [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi Amends Her Stand on Constitutional Reform
By Sithu Aung Myint / Frontier Myanmar | May 28, 2017 Constitutional reform was once the overriding priority of the National League for Democracy but the party has put the issue on the back burner [...]
‘Ready to Talk,’ TNLA Says of Ending Conflict with RCSS
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | May 26, 2017 As hundreds of delegates gather in Naypyidaw this week for a high-level peace summit, a spokesman for the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has said his [...]