By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 12, 2018 Myanmar celebrates its 71st Union Day on Feb. 12. The holiday commemorates the day in 1947 on which ethnic leaders signed the Panglong Agreement with General Aung San, calling for [...]
Network Media Group / BNI Online | February 9, 2018 Local residents said over 300 people are still trapped amid the fighting in the Kachin State’s Tanai area. Over 3,000 people were trapped amid the fighting on January 27. [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | February 8, 2018 The Myanmar military asked the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) at a meeting in China last week to withdraw from its bases in Kachin State’s Tanai Township where the two [...]
Burma Human Rights Network (BHR) | February 8, 2018 Since Jan. 25, the Myanmar Army has been engaged in an aerial bombardment of Kachin State’s Tanai Township, and carried out military strikes in and occupation of Kachin Independence Army-held [...]
By Soe Thu Aung / Mizzima | February 8, 2018 Kachin State Legislative Assembly, legislator Zaw Win from Tanai constituency said that almost all amber miners trapped in the conflict between the Tatmadaw (government’s military) and Kachin Independence Army [...]
20 Global Kachin Organisations | February 6, 2018 Stop War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity In response to a coordinated militant attack on August 25, 2017, the Burmese government security forces launched a military campaign in western Burma/Myanmar. This [...]
Kachinland News | February 6, 2018 KIO/A personnel and Kachin civilians around the world commemorated the 57th anniversary of the Kachin revolution day on Feb 5. In Laiza’s Padang hall, the KIO chairman General Nban La presented awards to [...]
By Wai Mar Tun and Tin Aung Khine / Radio Free Asia (RFA) | February 6, 2018 Spreading clashes between the Myanmar army and an ethnic armed group in eastern Myanmar’s Shan state have forced more than 150 residents of [...]
Karen News| February 5, 2018 The Karen National Union (KNU) chairman General Mutu Sae Poe said the nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) was signed to solve political problems by political means and it was not to abandon the way of [...]
By Chit Min Tun / The Irrawaddy | February 5, 2018 Some 5,000 people, including members of civil society organizations, religious organizations and town elders, staged a protest in the Kachin capital of Myitkyina on Monday to call for [...]