By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | April 25, 2018 A Kachin woman has gone into hiding after accusing the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) of killing two of her family members, apparently fearing detention by the military, according to [...]
32 Kachin Organisations | April 23, 2018 The Burma military broke the ceasefire with the Kachin Independence Organisation in 2011. Since then, residents of the Kachin region have endured various forms of human rights violation as well as denial [...]
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 23, 2018 Clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) around a village in Mogaung Township, Kachin State, have sent more than 800 people fleeing to the [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | April 20, 2018 A local Kachin internally displaced person (IDP), U Lahpai Gum, has been released under the presidential amnesty on April 17 after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to eight years [...]
By Kyaw Myo Min, Khin Khin Ei and Nay Rein Kyaw / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | April 19, 2018 Some 2,000 civilians in Myanmar’s war-torn Kachin state trapped in Tanaing township amid fighting between the national army and [...]
By Thet Su Aung / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | April 19, 2018 A Myanmar NGO has sent a letter to the head of the war-torn Kachin state government calling for the rescue of civilians trapped in a battle [...]
By Ye Mon / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 16, 2018 Armed clashes between Burmese government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have left about 2,000 ethnic Kachin villagers homeless in Tanai Township as they abandoned their [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | April 9, 2018 More than a dozen Myanmar Army (Tatmadaw) troops, many of them badly injured, were briefly detained by the Kachin Independence Army when the latter raided a Tatmadaw base in [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | April 6, 2018 Fighting between the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed organizations has escalated recently in the Kachin State and the northern Shan State. The Tatmadaw has been fighting with the Kachin Independence [...]
By Aung Thein Kha and Thinn Thiri / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | April 6, 2018 Authorities in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state have arrested and jailed an ethnic Kachin NGO for violating Article 17(1) of the colonial-era Unlawful Association Act, [...]