Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | May 13, 2017 Fighting has broken out again between the Burmese army and Kokang rebels near the Sino-Burmese border. The clashes coincide with a meeting between members of the Northern Alliance – [...]
By MNA / BNI Online | May 9, 2017 In a large shakeup that could spell trouble for the peace process, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIA) and the Wa National Army (WNA) have resigned from the powerful ethnic bloc, the [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 8, 2017 The call into question for the existence of the ethnic alliance begins with when Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) whose leader is the current-president of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), forwarded [...]
By Tsa Doi la / Kachinland News | May 8, 2017 In KIA’s Administrative Region east of the Irrawaddy river, the Burmese army troops belonging to 3rd and 21st Military Operations Command have joined the Southern Western Command (Pathein-based) [...]
Sai Wansai | May 4, 2017 Is Revitalization of the 1961 Federal Amendment Proposal the Way to Go? Introduction: The Contemporary Impasse With the Union Peace Conference, known as the “21st Century Panglong”, rescheduled to start on 24 May, [...]
By Steve Tickner | Frontier Despite recent fighting around Laiza, morale remains upbeat for the KIA soldiers on the frontline – but many still dream of returning to a normal life when the guns of war eventually fall silent. [...]
By Lama La Rip / Kachinland News | April 10, 2017 Needless to mention that water is a source of life for human being and all life forms, and it is in fact a universal truth. The country of [...]
Kachinland News | April 5, 2017 Locals are concerned about new offensives as more Burmese army troops arrived in KIA’s headquarters Laiza area, western and southern Kachin State. A KLN frontline source said Burmese army’s 37th and 58th LIB [...]
Joint Strategy Team | April 5, 2017 Escalating armed conflict in Kachin between the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw) and Kachin Independence Army (KIA) during November 2016 to January 2017 caused renewed displacement for 6,066 already internally displaced persons (IDPs) [...]
By Sean Gleeson / Frontier | April 3, 2017 YANGON — The government’s most important non-state partner in the peace process risks a return to the conflict that brutalised Myanmar’s east for decades without a stronger commitment to political dialogue [...]