By Kimberley Pillipps / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 25, 2018 The launch of a report by a Karen human rights organisation critical of the Burmese military’s conduct was blocked in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on Wednesday after two [...]
By Soe Thu Aung / Mizzima | April 26, 2018 The Peace Negotiation Committee (PNC) of Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and Peace Commission (PC) of National Reconciliation and Peace Centre (NRPC) will have an official meeting in Loikaw, [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | April 25, 2018 A Kachin woman has gone into hiding after accusing the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw) of killing two of her family members, apparently fearing detention by the military, according to [...]
Kachinland News | April 24, 2018 IDPs who had fled from their village of Lai Nawng Hku, Hpakant township on April 10, are still being detained by BA troops at Lai Nawng Hku, in the former barracks of the [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | April 24, 2018 Ethnic Karen need to adapt to new threats from the Myanmar Army (or Tatmadaw), according to the deputy chief of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), who accused the [...]
32 Kachin Organisations | April 23, 2018 The Burma military broke the ceasefire with the Kachin Independence Organisation in 2011. Since then, residents of the Kachin region have endured various forms of human rights violation as well as denial [...]
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice Burma (DVB) | April 23, 2018 Clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) around a village in Mogaung Township, Kachin State, have sent more than 800 people fleeing to the [...]
Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | April 23, 2018 The rape and brutal slashing of a 73-year-old woman by a Burma Army soldier near Mong Phyak town, eastern Shan State, on April 2, 2018, highlights the vulnerability of women [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | April 20, 2018 A local Kachin internally displaced person (IDP), U Lahpai Gum, has been released under the presidential amnesty on April 17 after being wrongfully convicted and sentenced to eight years [...]
Legal Aid Network (LAN) | April 19, 2018 1. On April 13, the office of the State Counsellor, headed by Aung San Suu Kyi, issued a press release arguing that there can be no ICC jurisdiction in the Rohingya [...]