By Yain Tai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) / BNI Online | January 5, 2018 Over 1,000 local residents are taking refuge in Kyaukme in northern Shan State due to concerns over the clashes between the Tatmadaw [...]
United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | December 26, 2017 It has been learnt that on December 20, 2017, the Tatmadaw (Burman Armed Forces) troops from a unit under Loikaw Regional Operation Command (ROC) seized the KNPP’s interim checkpoint at [...]
Burma Link | January 8, 2018 Founded in New Delhi in 1996, the Students and Youth Congress of Burma (SYCB) is an umbrella organization of eleven different ethnic youth and student organizations from Burma. After having advocated for youth [...]
Burma Link | December 21, 2017 Today (December 21, 2017), Burma Link publishes an infographic briefer about the Karen IDP (internally displaced person) camp Ei Tu Hta. Since 2006, Ei Tu Hta has provided refuge for thousands of Karen [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | December 20, 2017 Two Burmese military fighter jets again dropped 4 bombs on KIA’s 27th Battalion’s Bum Chyaw Bum, and a location between Marit Hkyet and Nam Gat Hkaraw in Mansi Township on Dec 19 at [...]
Since 2006, Ei Tu Hta (also spelled Ei Thu Hta) has provided refuge for thousands of Karen civilians fleeing armed conflict and Burma Army abuse in northern Karen State. Ei Tu Hta IDP camp is located on the Thailand-Burma [...]
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) | October 30, 2017 KHRG presents 'Foundation of Fear: 25 years of villagers' voices from southeast Myanmar', an extensive review of 25 years of KHRG documentation on militarisation, human rights abuses and village agency. [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | December 18, 2017 Burmese army troops currently based around KIA headquarters Laiza fired several mortar rounds on KIA’s frontline positions in the past week. Bumre-based Burmese army troops fired six artillery rounds on Munglai Hkyet [...]
Kachinland News | December 18 2017 Two Burmese military fighter jets pounded KIA’s 12th Battalion positions at Loi Jau Bum, Marit Hkyet, Dung Hkung Hkyet and Wu Dang Bum on Dec 14 at 2:05 pm, 2:23 pm, 2:41 pm, 2:50 [...]
By Sai Wansai/Shan Herald Agency for News | December 15, 2017 As 2017 comes to an end the ethnic armed conflict that have plagued the country for decades seems to be escalating, rather than reducing. The related ongoing peace [...]