Kachinland News | October 6, 2016 Burmese army’s Nhkram-based troops on Wednesday fired 3 rounds of 81 mm mortar shells on KIA’s Gidon post beginning 9:40 am, reported KIA a frontline source. The shelling lasted for about ten minutes. [...]
By Aik Sai / Mon News Agency (MNA) | August 18, 2016 The 21st Century Panglong Conference, the government’s upcoming forum for union-level peace talks, will be held every six months and non-signatories to last year’s nationwide ceasefire agreement [...]
By Naw Noreen / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | August 8, 2016 The 28th anniversary of the 8888 uprising was commemorated across Burma on Monday. In Rangoon, activists gathered in front of City Hall at 8:08am for a [...]
Press Release by Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) | August 3, 2016 Today, at Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon, Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) launched its thematic report entitled Hidden Strengths, Hidden Struggles: Women’s testimonies from southeast Myanmar which projects the voices [...]
By Libby Hogan / DVB | July 27, 2016 Civil society organisations (CSOs) operating on Burma’s borders are calling on State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to eliminate a blacklist that continues to prevent them from fully participating in the [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | July 22, 2016 Lt-Gen Mya Tun Oo, the serving chief of Burma’s military intelligence, confirmed yesterday that government soldiers were indeed responsible for the murder of five men from Mong Yaw in [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | July 5, 2016 More Burmese army troops have been deployed near KIO’s administrative capital Laiza as tensions have escalated between Kachin Independence Army and Burmese Army. A KIA frontline officer said Burmese army made several [...]
Press Release by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | July 1, 2016 The UNFC Delegation for Political Negotiation led by Khu Oo Reh met with the government representatives led by Dr. Tin Myo Win, the 21st Century Panglong (the [...]
Burma Partnership | June 22, 2016 This past week, the film Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess was prevented from screening at the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival by Burma’s film censorship board. The [...]
By Saw Thein Myint / Karen News | June 20, 2016 Soldiers from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army, including a battalion commander, reunited with the Karen National Liberation Army 201 Battalion, Brigade 6th on June 17 in Kawkareik Towship Karen [...]