Statement (2) on U Ko Ni case by Legal Aid Network | February 2, 2017 The Preamble of the UDHR provides, inter alia, that human rights should be protected by the Rule of Law. In Burma, the deprivation of Supreme [...]
Arakan National Council (ANC) | February 2, 2017 We, Arakan National Council, believe that behind the assassination of U Ko Ni, who is the Lawyer at Burmese Supreme Court and Legal Advisor to the National League for Democracy, are (1) those [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | January 30, 2017 U Ko Ni, a National League for Democracy (NLD) legal adviser, who was also a patron of the recently formed Myanmar Muslim Lawyers Association, was shot and [...]
By Pangmu Shayi / Kachinland News (KLN) | December 17, 2016 A newly formed coalition of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) calling itself the Northern Alliance-Burma (NA-B), began launching coordinated strikes against Burma Army positions in Northern Shan State on November [...]
By Min Thein Aung/ Radio Free Asia (RFA) | November 17, 2016 The Myanmar government on Wednesday formed a special information committee to release real-time news about the volatile situation in the country’s westernmost Rakhine state where the death [...]
Statement by Karen National Union (KNU) | November 14, 2016 The KNU 15th Congress CSC 5th meeting was successfully held from October 31 to November 10, 2016. The meeting was attended by 48 by 52 CSC members and 4 [...]
By Sai Wansai/ Shan Herald Agency for New (SHAN) | October 25, 2016 As the war in Kachin and Shan States has been going on and off for a few years, with a newly exploded rebellion of the Rohingya [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | October 20, 2016. “Do not put your trust in man. Rather, trust the constitution that we will be drafting.” These were the very words that Bogyoke Aung San used to address the deep mistrust expressed by [...]
By Lu Min Mang/ The Myanmar Times | October 3, 2016 A girl as young as two years old was killed and two other children were injured when an artillery shell struck near their homes on the morning of [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 27, 2016 Myanmar’s military-controlled Ministry of Home Affairs on Tuesday cancelled plans to give partial control of five of its departments to regional and state chief ministers, following the leaking of an office [...]