By Roland Watson / Dictator Watch | September 26, 2016 At the end of 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi dropped her boycott of Burma’s elections. She ordered the National League for Democracy to re-register as a political party, to participate in [...]
Joint Statement by Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) | September 23, 2016 We, the undersigned organizations, strongly condemned the Arakan (Rakhine) State government’s plans to demolish more than 3000 Rohingyas’ buildings, including 12 mosques and 35 madrasas, in the [...]
Burma Link | September 21, 2016 Moon Nay Li is the General Secretary of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), an organisation which she joined in 2002 in order to work for her people and community. Whilst Burma’s de [...]
September 19, 2016 The following interview was conducted as part of the research for the joint report “Invisible Lives: The Untold Story of Displacement Cycle in Burma” by Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM), Burma Link, and Burma Partnership, [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | September 14, 2016 Burma’s Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement says it has delivered humanitarian supplies for over 3,800 villagers displaced by a recent wave of armed hostilities in Karen State. Local [...]
Urgent Press Release by Kachin National Organization (KNO) | September 13, 2016 KNO demands Burma Army to withdraw immediately from Kachinland The Kachin National Organisation has learnt that local people and internally displaced people who live in the makeshift camps [...]
By Zaw Zaw Htwe and Shoon Naing / The Myanmar Times | September 9, 2016 A police officer in Kachin State has been suspended and detained after video circulated online this week showing him threatening to shoot villagers in Hpakant township [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | September 4, 2016 The Union Peace Conference – 21st Century Panglong (UPC-21CP), held from 31 August to 3 September, was supposed to be Aung San Suu Kyi’s deliberation of her major [...]
Radio Free Asia (RFA) | September 5, 2016 Myanmar’s peace commission has sent a written apology to the head of the country’s largest armed ethnic group, whose delegates stormed out of a major peace conference because of a mix-up regarding [...]
Burma News International (BNI)| September 5, 2016 In a motion submitted to the Union Peace Conference-21st Century Panglong yesterday, Karen armed groups requested for the government to adhere to international standards during the repatriation of refugees from camps in [...]