To Recognize and Repair: Unofficial Truth Projects and the Need for Justice in Burma
Statement by Network For Human Rights Documentation-Burma (ND-Burma)| June 11, 2015 ND-Burma releases its new report about acknowledgement and reparation for the crimes of the present and of the past. ND-Burma releases its new report, [...]
Ethnic Armed Organizations’ Summit Statement Law Khee Lar, Karen State, 2-9 June 2015
Statement by Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) | June 9, 2015 The Summit of the Ethnic Armed Organizations’ top leaders was held successfully at the KNU Headquarters’ Law Khee Lar Camp in Pa-an District, Karen State, for [...]
Naypyidaw Must Cancel Its Latest Plans to Build the Upper Salween (Mong Ton) Dam in Shan State
Statement by Shan Community Based Organizations | June 9, 2015 In the past few months, plans have been accelerated to build the Upper Salween (Mong Ton) dam in southern Shan State, which is a joint [...]
Statement by Kachin Alliance on the 4th Anniversary of Resumed War in Kachin Region
Statement by Kachin Alliance | June 9, 2015 Today marks the 4th anniversary of resumed war in Kachin region. Since the war resumed in 2011, countless numbers of civilians have been killed and about ten [...]
Statement by KWAT on the 4th Anniversary of the Renewal of War in Kachin Areas
Statement by Kachin Women's Association Thailand (KWAT) | June 9, 2015 The international community must start pressuring the Burmese government to stop its attacks against ethnic peoples The conflict situation in northern Burma has worsened [...]
56 Solidarity Groups Worldwide Call for an Immediate End to Offensives in Northern Burma and for Unhindered Humanitarian Assistance to the IDPs
By 56 Solidarity Groups Worldwide | June 8, 2015 -- Four years ago on 9 June 2011, the Burma Army attacked the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) outpost, breaking a 17-year-old ceasefire agreement. Since then the Burma/Myanmar Government has launched an aggressive military offensive against the KIA […]
Briefing Paper: Voices of Refugees – Situation of Burma’s Refugees Along the Thailand-Burma Border
By Burma Link and Burma Partnership | April 27, 2015 (27 April 2015) Today, Burma Link and Burma Partnership launches a joint briefing paper, Voices of Refugees – Situation of Burma’s Refugees Along the Thailand-Burma [...]
Call for Support – U Win Tin Blue Shirt Day for Political Prisoners in Burma/Myanmar on April 21st 2015
Press release by Burma Link and 16 other organisations, April 14, 2015 We, the undersigned 17 organisations, are calling on people worldwide to wear a blue shirt or blue clothing on Tuesday April 21st, the [...]
UNFC Chairman’s Open Letter to Republic of the Union of Myanmar President U Thein Sein
In order to be able to realize nationwide ceasefire in practice, by carrying on the good result, I would like to urge and suggest that it is necessary for Myanmar Tatmadaw to cease military offensives nationwide, unconditionally and immediately, and negotiations are held with the respective ethnic armed resistance organizations. […]
UNFC Position Statement on Signing of Approval on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Draft
Statement by The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), April 7, 2015 1. The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) recognizes the work and effort made by the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) for more than a year. 2. The signing on March 31, 2015 was not the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) […]
UNFC Statement on Current Talks and Raging of Ferocious Battles on the Ground
United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), March 28, 2015 1. We all know that members of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), together with fraternal ethnic armed resistance organizations, have been endeavoring by various means, with [...]
Unless Current Ferocious Battles Are Halted Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement Will Not Be Feasible
Statement by the Palaung State Liberation Front, March 17, 2015 1. In the Ta’ang and Kokang Regions, the Myanmar Tatmadaw has been launching offensives by deploying massive military force, consisting of combat Divisions 11, 33, [...]