Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | November 29, 2016 This update documents the following abuses committed by the Burma Army against civilians in three townships of northern Shan State while carrying out operations against the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State [...]
Kachinland News | November 29, 2016 About 70 Mungkoe residents who have been arrested and taken inside the Burmese army’s byuha (tactical command post) since fighting broke out at the beginning of the fourth week of November between northern-allied [...]
Shan State Farmers Network | November 29, 2016 On November 27, 2016, over 1,500 farmers from 19 townships gathered on the banks of the Namtu river in Hsipaw to demand an immediate cancellation of the Upper Yeywa dam in [...]
Statement by Women’s League for Burma (WLB) | November 25, 2016 On the occasion of the International Day to End Violence Against Women, WLB is launching a briefing paper, “Access to Justice for women survivors of gender-based violence committed by state [...]
Statement by Northern Alliance, Arakan Army (AA), Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) | November 21, 2016 We, Arakan Army (AA), Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army [...]
Press Release by Kachin Women's Association Thailand (KWAT) | November 16, 2016 A new report by the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) documents ongoing, widespread Burma Army abuses in Kachin areas of northern Burma over the past year, since [...]
Kachin Women's Association Thailand (KWAT) | November 15, 2016 This report provides an update of the security situation in Kachin areas of northern Burma during the past year, since the November 2015 elections. Despite hopes that the new government [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | November 15, 2016 Civilians in northern Shan State have borne the brunt of the recent hostilities between Burmese government forces and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA). Since November 2015, clashes have [...]
Karen News | November 14, 2016 Plans to build dams on the Salween River by the Burma government, China and Thailand threatens millions of villagers and animals that depend on the free flowing river for their living, food sources and as [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | November 8, 2016 The 25 October refugee repatriation, involving some seventy refugees, who left Thailand’s Tham Hin and Nu Po camps to return home voluntarily to Yangon (Rangoon), [...]