Burma News International (BNI) | October 27, 2016 Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO)’s Information Officer Lt-Col Naw Bu warned that fighting might escalate in Kachin Independence Army (KIA) controlled areas in Kachin and northern Shan states following Burma Army reinforcements [...]
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 Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint/ The Irrawaddy | October 21, 2016 The Burma Army has stopped a local environmentalist group from sending food relief to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township on suspicion that the supplies were [...]
Burma Link | October 21, 2016 Ko Han Gyi left Burma in 1988 after the student uprising and joined the ABSDF (All Burma Students’ Democratic Front) on the Thailand-Burma border. He stayed with the student armed group for over [...]
By Thu Thu Aung / Myanmar Times | October 20, 2016 Two villagers from the Mong Si village tract of Shan State’s Kutkai township were detained on October 17 because police suspected that they were providing food to members of [...]
Kachinland News | October 19, 2016 KIA sources said Burmese army troops fired KIA outposts almost daily with artillery and mortar fires. A civilian source who is in the area confirmed that he can continuously hear the sound of [...]
By Seamus Martov / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | October 18, 2016 A coalition of nine local humanitarian organisations active in Kachin State released a statement on Friday voicing their concern over restrictions imposed by the Burmese government [...]
Mizzima | October 17, 2016 Dozens of people have been charged under Myanmar’s Unlawful Association Act for allegedly having connections with an ethnic rebel group in restive northern Kachin State, according to an official Thursday, the Anadolu Agency reported on 13 [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | October 14, 2016 The Delegation for Political Negotiation is meeting in Nay Pyi Taw tomorrow with the government’s peace commission, a member of the commission said yesterday. The DPN is a negotiating body [...]