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 [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | December 4, 2017 Burma Army LIB 147 uses forced labor, loots food and requisitions civilian trucks during military operation against SSPP/SSA in Hsipaw During a military operation against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan [...]
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 [...]
Written by Zeyar Maw/Mizzima News | October 30,2017 The Myanmar Government and the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) based in northern Myanmar had meetings for five months but two-party talks have yet to materialize. With intervention and mediation by the [...]
Progressive Voice | October 18, 2017 A new report by the UN Human Rights Office based on interviews with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh that fled the latest Myanmar[1] Army crackdown reaffirms the reports from media and human rights organizations of terrible suffering [...]
Palaung State Liberation Front | October 11, 2017 The Tatmadaw Defense Services Head Office and Myawaddy News published reports, dated October 10, accusatorily claiming with the headline, “Tatmadaw, Conducting Area Clearance Operation in Lashio Township, Captured Arms, Ammunitions and [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | August 28, 2017 Myanmar’s Peace Process: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, Borderland Economies, Service Delivery, and other Post-Panglong Concerns (Part I) Editor’s Note: The following is the first part of a three part series to be featured [...]
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | August 25, 2017 The Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee (FPNCC) released a statement on Thursday conveying the ethnic armed bloc’s intention to join the next iteration of the [...]
Burma Link | August 11, 2017 The decades-long struggle of Burma’s ethnic nationalities for equal rights, social justice and federal democracy, and the grave human rights abuses occurring predominantly in outlying ethnic areas, continues to receive inadequate international attention. [...]
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | August 9, 2017 Clashes between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and the Tatmadaw erupted in Khay Khin and Man Wel villages, part of Namhsan Township, Shan State, on [...]