Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | January 16, 2017 Three civilians were killed and seven injured, including two women and a five-year-old child, when two Burma Army jets indiscriminately bombed Pang Mark Mur village, Kyaukme township, northern Shan State, [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | January 13, 2017 Prevent forced returns, allow humanitarian agencies unfettered access to displaced communities (YANGON, January 13, 2017)—The Government of China should ensure protection for thousands of ethnic Kachin civilians fleeing ongoing [...]
Progressive Voice | January 11, 2017 As a new year begins, offensives and human rights violations by the Myanmar[1] Army continue to plague ethnic areas and see no sign of abating. With the second 21st Century Panglong Conference a matter [...]
By Tsa Doi La / Kachinland News (KLN) | January 11, 2017 Burmese army artillery units unceasingly pounded KIA’s Ngwa Le outpost in southeastern Kachin State fended by its 3rd Battalion troops under 5th Brigade on January 10, KLN’s frontline [...]
By Sai Wansai / Kachinland News (KLN) | January 7, 2017 As 2017 begins, speculation and assessment on which way Burma’s political wind might be blowing becomes an important task to determine for stakeholders and opinion-makers alike, in order [...]
By Thu Thu Aung / Myanmar Times | January 4, 2017 In one northern Shan State township fresh waves of displacement are being driven by a looming threat of heavy artillery, while nearby, thousands of IDPs have returned home [...]
Kachinland News | December 15, 2016 As fighting raged between northern-allied troops (NA-B) and the Burmese army in northern Shan State, about 70 Mongkoe residents were taken hostage on Nov 19, 2016, and taken to the army’s Byuha Hill [...]
By KNG / Burma News International (BNI) | December 15, 2016 The Burma Army bombed a Roman Catholic Church in Mong Ko Town in northern Shan State where it is fighting with the Northern Alliance. During fighting in Mong Ko, [...]
Kachinland News | December 8, 2016 Three mortar shells fired by Burmese army troops from Mongkoe side of the border landed on Man Hai, a Chinese town across the border, on Tuesday at around 2 a.m., said a Mongkoe [...]
By Thu Thu Aung, Myanmar Times | December 8, 2016 The Shan State Hluttaw yesterday green-lit a controversial proposal to designate the new Northern Alliance-Burma as a “terrorist” organisation, in a motion put forward by a lawmaker from the [...]