By Zeyar Maw / Mizzima | October 11, 2018 Nam Kham city Shan Youth Network liaison in-charge Sai Than Shwe has confirmed to Mizzima that Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta’ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA) agreed to release detained Nan Mo [...]
Lahu Women’s Organization / Pa-O Women’s Union/ Shan Women’s Action Network / Ta’ang Women’s Organization | October 10, 2018 The Lahu Women’s Organization, the Pa-O Women’s Union, the Shan Women’s Action Network and the Ta’ang Women’s Organization are very concerned about the [...]
12 civil society organizations | October 9, 2018 [Yangon – 9 October, 2018] The mandate laid out in the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Law and the mindset of the current commissioners hinders the effective promotion and protection of [...]
By Zarni Mann / The Irrawaddy | October 9, 2018 MANDALAY — The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) says it has sentenced an ethnic Shan woman to three years in jail for informing on the armed group’s fighters to [...]
By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | October 8, 2018 YANGON—About 70 Arakanese staged a protest in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo on Monday afternoon to demand the release of two prominent Arakan figures currently detained in [...]
By Kyaw Htun Naing / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | October 5, 2018 Myanmar’s largest non-state army on Friday freed 100 ethnic Wa Christians it had detained, but continues to hold more than 100 ethnic Lahu Christians in a [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | October 4, 2018 Burma Army use of drones for the first time near Loi Lam IDP camp on the northern Chiang Mai border, and near-completion of a new strategic road from Mong Hta [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | October 4, 2018 The northern Shan State locals believe the troops were investigating whether members of ethnic armed organizations were staying in the community. Burma Army troops carried out unexpected checks of [...]
Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) | September 27, 2018 (New report details current human rights concerns in Chin State, Myanmar) (Bangkok, Sept 27th 2018) — On the 13 June 2018 the UNHCR officially confirmed that Chin refugees from Myanmar were [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 27, 2018 Myanmar’s largest non-state army has recently detained almost 100 Christian pastors and conscripted bible students into its ranks as fighters in self-declared autonomous areas bordering China and Thailand in Shan state, [...]