November 2018
Students Attend Model Peace Conference
By Naw Betty Han / Myanmar Times | November 20, 2018 Eighty university students from across the country attended the opening of a meeting in Yangon yesterday aimed at finding out their views of the ongoing [...]
Why a Land Law Change Is Sparking Fears of Mass Evictions
By Ben Dunant / Frontier Myanmar | November 20, 2018 GOVERNMENT PAPERWORK would have you believe that a third of Myanmar’s landmass, totalling almost 50 million acres, is “vacant”, “virgin” or “fallow”. This is ostensibly [...]
Kachin Woman, 60, Shot Dead as Rival EAOs Clash in Lashio Township
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | November 19, 2018 An ethnic Kachin woman was killed on Nov. 17 when fighting erupted between rival ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) outside her village near Lashio Township in [...]
KNU and Govt Plan to Resume Formal Peace Talks
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | November 19, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Myanmar government peace negotiators and the Karen National Union (KNU) have vowed to resume formal peace talks as quickly as possible, [...]
Solving On-the-Ground Issues Necessary in Moving Closer to NCA: KNPP
By Nyein Neyin / The Irrawaddy | November 20, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand—The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), a non-signatory of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), said solving problems on the ground would help to [...]
Life in Northern Shan State Disrupted by Intensified Armed Conflict
Network Media Group / BNI Online | November 17, 2018 Civil society organizations, political parties, and armed groups have said that armed conflict is increasing in northern Shan State, and has been on the rise [...]
Ethnic Pa-O Forced to Participate in Pro-Military Rally
By Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy | November 15, 2018 Hundreds of ethnic Pa-O were forced to join a pro-military rally in Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State on Wednesday according to a number of [...]
BA Troops Pillaged Homes and Burned Down Rice Barns
KLN / Kachinland News | November, 17, 2018 Local sources reported that BA troops pillaged homes, burned down rice barns and killed domestic animals for food in Sut Ra and Kawng Ja villages in Njang [...]
500 Villagers Flee as Tatmadaw, SSPP/SSA Combats in Hsipaw
BNI Online | November 15, 2018 Over 500 internally displaced people fled and took refuge at a monastery following clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Shan State Progressive Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in Hsipaw Township [...]
Informal Meeting on Peace Issues to Be Held in Thailand
By Naw Betty Han / Myanmar Times | November 16, 2018 Myanmar's Peace Commission and the leaders of armed ethnic groups that have signed the government’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) will hold an informal meeting in [...]