By Thinzar Shunlei Yi and Sut Seng Htoi / Mizzima | July 10, 2018 Myanmar has a proud history of peaceful protests. Exercising the right to the freedom of peaceful assembly in the face of state violence has been [...]
By Saw Yamin Aung / The Irrawaddy | July 9, 2018 YANGON — The Karenni State government has postponed controversial plans to erect a statue of independence hero General Aung San in the state capital, Loikaw, following a local [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | July 9, 2018 Two local Kachin aid groups have appealed to other aid organizations to help provide food for almost 400 ethnic Kachin IDPs who returned to their three villages in Injangyang [...]
By De Moe Thway / Mizzima | July 9, 2018 More than 200 farmers from six villages in Tanintharyi Township, Myeik District, Tanintharyi Region, on Sunday morning staged a protest march urging authorities and Shwe Kanbawza oil-palm company to [...]
Free Ranger Burma | July 3, 2018 The 23 military actions that the Kachin Independence Army provided record of during June in Kachin and Northern Shan States are a significant reduction of hostilities comparative to May’s 137 actions. The [...]
By Soe Thu Aung / Mizzima | July 7, 2018 Tatmadaw (military) representative at Joint Monitoring Committee-Union (JMC-U), Col.Wunna Aung, said that they will discuss again with the Karen National Union (KNU) the plan for building a road in [...]
Karen Information Center / BNI Online | July 6, 2018 The National Ethnic Youth Alliance (NEYA) released a statement on July 4 to denounce the government for taking action and using violence in the crackdown against ethnic Karenni (Kayah) [...]
Kachin News Group / BNI Online | July 5, 2018 Nine residents of Awng Lawt Village of Tanai Township arrived at an internally displaced resident (IDP) camp in the Kachin State’s capital Myitkyina at the end of June after [...]
Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN) | July 5, 2018 It has become undeniably clear that Burma’s current peace negotiation process will not lead to lasting peace or facilitate the establishment of “a new democratic federal union”. So far, representatives [...]
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | July 4, 2018 MON STATE — The government has invited all members of the Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee (FPNCC) to attend the third session of the 21st Century Panglong Peace [...]