Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) | September 7, 2018 Burma Army conscripts porters, detains elderly and children during “clearance operations” near Upper Yeywa dam site in N. Shan State; arrests, tortures villagers in S. Shan State From July 23 to [...]
Canadian Burma Ethnic Nationalities Organization (CBENO) | September 6, 2018 We, the Canadian Burma Ethnic National Organization supports the report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Burma [Myanmar] and support its recommendations. The Fact-Finding Mission found evidence of [...]
Associated Press / The Myanmar Times | September 5, 2018 They were the first photos Marip Lu had ever taken of her son, and it broke her heart to think they might be the last. The 3-year-old was standing [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) | September 6, 2018 Local woman Nang Mo Hom has been in TNLA custody for three weeks. Civil society organization representatives and family members of Nang Mo Hom—who has [...]
By Saw Thein Myint / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | September 6, 2018 The Karen Community of Canada (KCC) will conduct international campaigns to resume aids to the refugees in Thai-Myanmar border and internally displaced persons (IDPs). [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | September 4, 2018 The township judge has decided on September 3 to continue the trial of the three Kachin youths, who led a protest to free the trapped residents in the Kachin [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 5, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand—The government’s Peace Commission (PC) met with three members of the Northern Alliance group of armed organizations in China on Wednesday. The meeting was agreed to in [...]
Khonumthung News / BNI Online | September 4, 2018 Refugees living in Hmawngbuchhuah Village in Lawngtlai District of Mizoram State are in need of food and healthcare after fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army forced them to [...]
By Hom Hurng / Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N) | September, 4, 2018 With armed conflict on the way to Hsipaw and flooding outside Lashio, the displaced in Namtu Township are filling monasteries and makeshift camps. More than [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | September 4, 2018 The Karenni State government ordered non-governmental organizations, international non-governmental organizations and community-based organizations to provide two weeks’ notice of any meetings or workshops they planned to hold in the [...]