By Tsa Doi La / Kachinland News | February 18, 2018 The Gat Noi-based Burmese army’s 225th Light Infantry Battalion troops reportedly seized 35-year-old Mr. Ah Di of Seng Hpra village during a fishing trip at Nam Ya creek at [...]
Kachinland News | February 14, 2018 About 200 Pu-tao residents protested against KIA for current war and destroying bridges in northern Kachin state on Feb 13 at 8 am. Local sources said the protest was organized by Rawang culture [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irawaddy | February 14, 2018 Three ethnic Kachin internally displaced persons (IDPs) were released by the Myanmar Army after being forced to work as porters in Mansi township, but two others had yet to [...]
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | February 13, 2018 The Tatmadaw and Kachin Independence Organization/Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA) held a two-and-a-half hour meeting in the border town of Dali in China’s Yunnan Province on Feb.1 focused on [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 12, 2018 Myanmar celebrates its 71st Union Day on Feb. 12. The holiday commemorates the day in 1947 on which ethnic leaders signed the Panglong Agreement with General Aung San, calling for [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | February 9, 2018 Local residents said over 300 people are still trapped amid the fighting in the Kachin State’s Tanai area. Over 3,000 people were trapped amid the fighting on January 27. [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 8, 2018 The Myanmar military asked the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) at a meeting in China last week to withdraw from its bases in Kachin State’s Tanai Township where the two [...]
Burma Human Rights Network (BHR) | February 8, 2018 Since Jan. 25, the Myanmar Army has been engaged in an aerial bombardment of Kachin State’s Tanai Township, and carried out military strikes in and occupation of Kachin Independence Army-held [...]
By Soe Thu Aung / Mizzima | February 8, 2018 Kachin State Legislative Assembly, legislator Zaw Win from Tanai constituency said that almost all amber miners trapped in the conflict between the Tatmadaw (government’s military) and Kachin Independence Army [...]
20 Global Kachin Organisations | February 6, 2018 Stop War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity In response to a coordinated militant attack on August 25, 2017, the Burmese government security forces launched a military campaign in western Burma/Myanmar. This [...]