By Chit Min Tun / The Irrawaddy | January 9, 2018 YANGON — Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) commanders have decided not to attend the third session of the Union Peace Conference—21st Century Panglong—slated for the last week of [...]
By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald Agency for News | December 15, 2017 As 2017 comes to an end the ethnic armed conflict that have plagued the country for decades seems to be escalating, rather than reducing. The related ongoing peace [...]
By Nyein Nyein/Irrawaddy News | December 7, 2017 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — As the Tatmadaw has restricted the transportation of basic commodities in conflict-torn Tanai Township, Kachin State, locals have run out of fuel and are suffering a rice [...]
Tea Circle Oxford| December 4, 2017 Moegyo challenges the role of development/assistance in ethnic areas and provides recommendations for vetting. With the transition in 2011 to a new hybrid civilian-military government in Burma, a number of international development/assistance carpetbaggers – [...]
Angshuman Choudhury / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | November 30, 2017 On 11-12 November, a delegation of senior government officials led by the Union Minister for Border Affairs, Lieutenant-General Ye Aung, met with members of Burma’s largest ethnic armed organisation [...]
By Victoria Milko / Frontier Myanmar | November 20, 2017 Food aid cuts have created further anxiety for more than 6,000 refugees and displaced people from Shan State who have endured a precarious existence for years in camps along [...]
Lahpai Seng Raw/Kachinland News | November 28, 2017 It has been a full 2 years since the landslide victory of the NLD in the 2015 elections, and the subsequent formation of a civilian-led government. At this point in time, [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News | November 24, 2017 Amid a catastrophic human rights crisis, the space for civil society and human rights defenders is shrinking as protests in Yangon are banned, a land rights defender is beaten to death, and spurious charges [...]
By Daung Lu/Mizzima News | November 18, 2017 Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) issued its monthly report which says the number of prisoners arrested for political activities has reached 221 in Myanmar until the end of October 2017 [...]
By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald Agency for News | November 13, 2017 The only way to resolve the armed conflict or silenced the gun fire is to change the hybrid civilian-military to pure civilian rule. In other words, the military [...]