Shwe Aung / DVB | February 28, 2017 Several ethnic armed groups that are not signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have decided they will not sign the accord and instead are looking to engage in alternative-track peace [...]
By Naw Noreen / DVB | February 22, 2017 Ethnic armed groups that are not signatory to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on Tuesday kicked off a meeting at the United Wa State Army’s Panghsang headquarters as a spokesperson [...]
Burma News International | February 21, 2017 The powerful Wa army will host a summit of ethnic armed organizations this week in Pangkham (Pangsang), the capital of the Wa self-administered zone. The meeting is the third such summit to [...]
By Network Media Group / Burma News International (BNI) | February 11, 2017 Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), an ethnic armed group that is still in armed engagement against the Tatmadaw [Burma Army], will only take part in the [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | January 19, 2017 Burmese government forces say they have captured three bases from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), including its local base command in Bhamo District, southern Kachin State. According to yesterday’s report [...]
The Irrawaddy | January 17, 2017 Following the first meeting of the 21st Century Panglong Peace Conference in August, fighting intensified in northeastern Burma, and negotiations between the government and the ethnic alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) stalled. [...]
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 Sai Wansai / Kachinland News (KLN) | January 11, 2017 People are generally at a lost on why the National League for Democracy (NLD) party that won the 2015 nationwide election on a landslide couldn’t deliver its Election [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | January 10, 2017 Nine civil society groups have called for an urgent end to ongoing hostilities in Kachin and Shan states as refugees face a shortage of food and supplies. U Gum Sha Awng, spokesperson [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | January 9, 2017 The Ta’ang National Liberation Army - one of the armed groups engaged in ongoing fighting with the Tatmadaw - has slammed the new government’s guidance of the peace process as “ineffectual”. The [...]