Radio Free Asia (RFA) | March 29, 2017 Northeastern Myanmar’s Kachin state has been rocked by ongoing clashes between the government military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), since 2011, when a cease-fire deal collapsed. The KIA, which controls [...]
Radio-Free Asia (RFA) | March 28, 2017 Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Myanmar’s Kachin state will only be able to return to their homes when all stakeholders work together in pursuit of ethnic peace, the country’s de facto leader [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | March 27, 2017 For weeks, since the Panghsang or Pangkham meeting of seven, non-signatory of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) at the United Wa State Party/Army [...]
Free Burma Rangers | March 10, 2017 On January 14th high in the Kachin mountains, along the border with China, are acres of blue tarps erected as makeshift shelters. This morning, frost covered the ground as IDPs started their [...]
By Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | March 8, 2017 Burma’s armed forces have launched offensives against the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), a signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), only a week before [...]
By Network Media Group / Burma News International (BNI) | March 8, 2017 As a northern Shan State city came under attack early on March 6, with a member of the self-styled Northern Alliance taking credit for the deadly [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | March 6, 2017 The Government’s Peace Commission and the Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) agreed at a meeting last week on nine proposals put forward by the DPN regarding ceasefire rules, [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | March 1, 2017 The Delegation for Political Negotiation (DPN) met with State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday to discuss the group’s terms for a nationwide [...]
Shwe Aung / DVB | February 28, 2017 Several ethnic armed groups that are not signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have decided they will not sign the accord and instead are looking to engage in alternative-track peace [...]
By Naw Noreen / DVB | February 22, 2017 Ethnic armed groups that are not signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on Tuesday kicked off a meeting at the United Wa State Army’s Panghsang headquarters as a spokesperson [...]