Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | September 20, 2018 Ethnic armed groups held a two-day meeting in Laiza, Kachin State, at the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) to discuss how they could cooperate for participation in the [...]
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) / Progressive Voice (PV) / Women’s Peace Network - Arakan | September 17, 2018 (Geneva, 17 September 2018) – The United Nations and its member states must act urgently to investigate and prosecute [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | September 19, 2018 A rights group has reported that the police in Nam Hpat Kar, a town in Kutkai Township near the Chinese border, have still not taken action against two men [...]
By Zarni Mann / The Irrawaddy | September 17, 2018 MANDALAY — Thousands of people protested in Shan State on Monday to demand that the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) release an ethnic Shan woman the armed group [...]
Narinjara / BNI Online | September 18, 2018 Although the Ministry of Defence has released 120 acres of land that belongs to the residents of Pyaung Seik, Pyaing Chaung, and Oke Taung Pyin villages under Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State, [...]
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | September 18, 2018 Karen State, Burma Burma Army soldiers moving to Ta Khee Ko, an old Burma Army position camp, on September 11, 2018. Following the Burma Army’s attacks against Karen villagers [...]
By Marn Yu Kyaw (Shwewa Myay) / Narinjara / BNI Online | September 17, 2018 Around 200 farmers from Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State staged a protest yesterday (September 16) to demand the return of over 1,000 acres of military seized [...]
Progressive Voice (PV) | September 16, 2018 The current crisis in Myanmar indicates widespread abuses and violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law committed by the Myanmar military in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States as well as [...]
Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 17, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The KNU Concerned Group, led by the former vice chairperson of the Karen National Union, has endorsed the report of the independent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar [...]
By Hsa Moo / Karen News | September 17, 2018 This month of September marks five months since Saw O Moo, an unarmed civilian villager and Indigenous community leader who was killed by Burma army on April 5, 2018. [...]