Legal Aid Network (LAN) | October 14, 2018 1. Currently, Burma is in a dilemma over how to tackle the peace related issues, including the meeting – to be attended by Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, State Counsellor Mrs. [...]
By Ye Mon / Frontier Myanmar | October 11, 2018 YANGON — The location of peace talks between military and civilian leaders and the leaders of ethnic armed groups party to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, aimed at resolving deadlocks in [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | October 10, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Leaders of the ethnic armed groups signed up to Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) are meeting in Thailand to decide whether to join an upcoming [...]
Wai Mar Tun / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | October 9, 2018 Myanmar’s largest non-state army has called for ethnic armed organizations that have not signed the government’s nationwide cease-fire accord to be included in a meeting next week [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | October 8, 2018 Mon State — The Karen National Union (KNU) says it wants a summit with the state counselor and military chief tentatively set for Oct. 15 delayed and the intended [...]
Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | September 20, 2018 Ethnic armed groups held a two-day meeting in Laiza, Kachin State, at the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) to discuss how they could cooperate for participation in the [...]
By Zarni Mann / The Irrawaddy | September 17, 2018 MANDALAY — Thousands of people protested in Shan State on Monday to demand that the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) release an ethnic Shan woman the armed group [...]
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | September 18, 2018 Karen State, Burma Burma Army soldiers moving to Ta Khee Ko, an old Burma Army position camp, on September 11, 2018. Following the Burma Army’s attacks against Karen villagers [...]
Progressive Voice (PV) | September 16, 2018 The current crisis in Myanmar indicates widespread abuses and violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law committed by the Myanmar military in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States as well as [...]
Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 17, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The KNU Concerned Group, led by the former vice chairperson of the Karen National Union, has endorsed the report of the independent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar [...]