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October 2018

Waingmaw Townships Has More IDPs Than Gov’t’s List

Kachin News Group / BNI Online | October 12, 2018 There are more internally displaced persons (IDPs) on ground in the list of the IDP camps in Waingmaw Township, Kachin State than the IDPs' list [...]

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Three Arakanese Youth Activists Held in Rakhine

By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | October 11, 2018 YANGON – Three Arakanese, one from the Arakan National Party (ANP) and two township representatives of the Arakan Youth Conference (AYC), have been arrested by [...]

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TNLA Agrees to Release Nan Mo Hom

By Zeyar Maw / Mizzima | October 11, 2018 Nam Kham city Shan Youth Network liaison in-charge Sai Than Shwe has confirmed to Mizzima that Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta’ang National Liberation Army (PSLF/TNLA) agreed to [...]

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Armed Groups Meet to Decide Peace Summit Attendance

By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | October 10, 2018 CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Leaders of the ethnic armed groups signed up to Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) are meeting in Thailand to decide whether [...]

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The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Must Be Reinvigorated for Better Human Rights Promotion and Protection

12 civil society organizations | October 9, 2018 [Yangon – 9 October, 2018] The mandate laid out in the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Law and the mindset of the current commissioners hinders the effective [...]

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TNLA Gives Shan Woman 3-Year Jail Term

By Zarni Mann / The Irrawaddy | October 9, 2018 MANDALAY — The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) says it has sentenced an ethnic Shan woman to three years in jail for informing on the [...]

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Scores of Arakan Protesters Rally Outside Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo

By Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy | October 8, 2018 YANGON—About 70 Arakanese staged a protest in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo on Monday afternoon to demand the release of two prominent Arakan [...]

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