By Roland Watson, Dictator Watch | June 1, 2016 The Myanmar Times has a report today on the long-delayed religion and ethnic population breakdowns from the 2014 Burma national census. According to U Myint Kyaing, from the Ministry of [...]
Roland Watson / Dictator Watch, May 10, 2014 An event of truly historical significance is now underway in Burma, but it is receiving scant attention. This is the census of the nation's population, potentially the first accurate count since [...]
KLN, April 4, 2014 About 1000 troops from Burmese army’s Magway-based 88th Light Infantry Division (LID) and Theinni-based 16th Military Operation Command (MOC-16) on Wednesday arrived near Man Win Gyi village in Kachin-Shan border and surrounded the village which hosts thousands of Internally [...]
By Burma Partnership, April 1, 2014 The situation in Arakan State is deteriorating rapidly as extremist monks continue to spread hate speech and incite violence against the Muslim community with impunity. With the upcoming census set to inflame tensions [...]
Karen News, March 20, 2014 The European Burma Network has added its voice to a large and growing coalition of political, humanitarian and community organisations calling on Burma’s government to postpone the country’s national census that is set to [...]
Roland Watson / Dictator Watch, March 16, 2014 There is now a desperate push by Burma's military dictatorship, including one of its public faces, the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC), and also ethnic traitors, to complete a nationwide ceasefire by [...]
Burma Campaign UK, March 14, 2014 28 Karen community organisations from 11 countries are writing to the United Nations Population Fund and their respective governments, expressing deep concern over Burma’s upcoming census, and calling for it [...]
Kachin National Organization, February 27, 2014 UNPFA is launching 2014 population and housing census on 1st March 2014 despite the wrong ethnic coding, without inclusive community consultation and approval We, the Kachin National Organisation, are extremely [...]
Yen Snaing / The Irrawaddy, February 21, 2014 RANGOON — Ethnic groups and civil society organizations are raising concerns that data gathered on ethnicity in Burma’s upcoming census could be used for political purposes. A group of 30 civil [...]
Roland Watson / Dictator Watch, January 6, 2014 View as PDF Introduction Two weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of Cambodians demonstrated in Phnom Penh. They were protesting last July’s national ballot, which was fraudulent – rigged to keep Hun [...]