Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | September 18, 2018 Karen State, Burma Burma Army soldiers moving to Ta Khee Ko, an old Burma Army position camp, on September 11, 2018. Following the Burma Army’s attacks against Karen villagers [...]
By Marn Yu Kyaw (Shwewa Myay) / Narinjara / BNI Online | September 17, 2018 Around 200 farmers from Kyauktaw Township, Rakhine State staged a protest yesterday (September 16) to demand the return of over 1,000 acres of military seized [...]
Progressive Voice (PV) | September 16, 2018 The current crisis in Myanmar indicates widespread abuses and violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law committed by the Myanmar military in Rakhine, Kachin and Shan States as well as [...]
Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 17, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The KNU Concerned Group, led by the former vice chairperson of the Karen National Union, has endorsed the report of the independent International Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar [...]
By Hsa Moo / Karen News | September 17, 2018 This month of September marks five months since Saw O Moo, an unarmed civilian villager and Indigenous community leader who was killed by Burma army on April 5, 2018. [...]
Karenni Civil Society Network (KCSN) | September 16, 2018 We, the Karenni Civil Society Network (KCSN), welcome the August 27 report of the UN Independent International Fact Finding Mission, which called for six top Burmese military leaders including Senior [...]
By Sa Isue / Karen Information Center / BNI Online | September 14, 2018 Indigenous people from the Tanintharyi Region gathered yesterday (September 13) to campaign against the plan to build a dam in the eastern shore of Sar [...]
Kachin Women's Association Thailand (KWAT) | September 13, 2018 On Myanmar’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day, KWAT urges Burma’s government and the international community to recognize that without an end to Burma Army offensives and war crimes, the problem of [...]
By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint / The Irrawaddy | September 13, 2018 YANGON — Myanmar Army soldiers reportedly raided a house in Kachin State’s Hpakant on Tuesday and detained three men they claimed were insurgents extorting money for the [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | September 12, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Col. Sai Ngern, spokesperson for the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS), spoke to The Irrawaddy reporter Nyein Nyein about the armed group’s clashes with [...]