Spreading Burma Army Attacks and Abuses Against Civilians in Shan State Undermine Nationwide Ceasefire Negotiations
Statement by the Shan Human Rights Foundation, March 28, 2014 The Shan Human Rights Foundation is deeply concerned at the escalation of attacks and abuses by the Burma Army against civilians in [...]
Karen Worldwide Call for Burma’s Census to be Postponed
Burma Campaign UK, March 14, 2014 28 Karen community organisations from 11 countries are writing to the United Nations Population Fund and their respective governments, expressing deep concern over Burma’s upcoming census, [...]
UN Human Rights Council Burma Resolution Must Not Drop Demands For Action
Burma Campaign UK, March 10, 2014 Statement by members of the European Burma Network The content of the next United Nations Human Rights Council Resolution on Burma is currently being discussed by [...]
Kachin Group: Census Launched Despite Wrong Ethnic Coding and Lack of Community Consultation and Approval
Kachin National Organization, February 27, 2014 UNPFA is launching 2014 population and housing census on 1st March 2014 despite the wrong ethnic coding, without inclusive community consultation and approval We, the Kachin [...]
PSLF: We Will Continue the Armed Revolutionary Resistance until Our Political Aims Are Achieved
Statement of PSLF condemning Myanmar Government for Relentlessly Oppressing Ta-an (Palaung) Region and the People with Military Operations Palaung State Liberation Front, February 10, 2014 1. We, the Palaung State Liberation Front/Ta-an [...]
Burmese Muslim Association: BMA Statement on the Latest Massacre in Western Burma
Burmese Muslim Association, January 28, 2014 BMA is deeply concerned over the latest outbreak of violence against Rohingya in Northern Arakan. Although we are unable to verify the exact figures independently, the [...]
Conference of Ethnic Armed Resistance Organizations
Ethnic Armed Resistance Organizations/ Law Khee Lar, Kawthoolei, January 20 – 25, 2014 1. Conference of the ethnic armed resistance organizations (or Law Khee Lar Conference) was successfully held from January 20 [...]
Report of Systematic Sexual Violence in Burma’s Ethnic Areas
Women’s League of Burma, January 14, 2014 [RANGOON, CHIANG MAI AND NEW YORK, NY] Today marks the launch of an important new report documenting ongoing crimes of sexual violence—over 100 cases documented [...]
Kachin National Organization Demand Unconditional Release of All Kachin Political Prisoners
Kachin National Organization, January 3, 2014 Today, the Kachin National Organization (KNO) expressed concern that the Burmese government is continuing to arrest and sentence fellow Kachins for their political belief at alarmingly [...]
KNU Letter of Felicitation sent on the Occasion of Karen New Year Day of 2753
Karen National Union (KNU), January 1, 2014 OFFICE OF THE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS KAREN NATIONAL UNION KAWTHOOLEI KNU Letter of Felicitation sent on the Occasion of Karen New Year Day of 2753 Today, [...]
Analysis of the RCSS’s joint pilot drug eradication project with UNODC and the Thein Sein government
Restoration Council of Shan State Anti-Narcotics Committee (RCSS ANC), December 23, 2013 Analysis of the RCSS’s joint pilot drug eradication project with UNODC and the Thein Sein government “The experience of RCSS [...]
Villagers in eastern Shan State suffer forced labour and extortion by Burma Army troops guarding loggers in Salween dam flood zone
Shan Human Rights Foundation, December 13, 2013 Summary Villagers in Murng Paeng township are being used as forced labour by Burmese government troops giving security to military-linked logging operations above the planned [...]