Joint Strategy Team | June 15, 2017 Fighting between the Government Armed Forces and the Kachin Independence Army has been taking place in Tanai Twonship in the Western part of Kachin State since 3rd June 2017, continues around N’Ga [...]
Paing Soe / Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | June 12, 2017 Hundreds of workers and their families have abandoned the gold and amber mines in Tanai, northern Kachin State, following threats from the Burmese military, which air-dropped leaflets [...]
Kachin Global Action Statement | June 9, 2017 Children born on the day civil war reignited in Kachin State are now starting their first grade in school, this week. Thousands of IDPs from a total of over 120,000 have fled, [...]
By Nyein Nyein / The Irrawaddy | June 9, 2017 RANGOON — Since September 2011 to date, fighting has been on and off in Kachin Independence Army (KIA)-controlled areas in northern and northeastern Burma, particularly in Waingmaw, Mansi, Tanai, [...]
Free Burma Rangers (FBR) | June 8, 2017 Kachin State, Burma Due to heavy fighting and military offensives conducted by the Burma Army into Kachin Independence Army (KIA) held areas, especially since August 2016, the lives of thousands of IDPs [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | June 7, 2017 Three people were injured in the ongoing clashes between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army armed group in Kachin state, said a spokesman for a civil society [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | June 5, 2017 About 50 soldiers from Burmese army’s 126th Light Infantry Regiment launched an attack on KIA 14th Battalion’s Mai Sak Post in Danai Township on June 3 at around 5:30 am. KIA sources [...]
Kachinland News | May 31, 2017 Three Kachin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Mung Hkawng IDP Camp were abducted and killed by Burmese army’s 319th Light Infantry Regiment (LIR) soldiers. Locals assured Tatmadaw soldiers had committed the killing as [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | May 24, 2017 Lisu National Development Party (LNDP) issued a statement on April 21 accusing the Kachin Independence Organization as a terrorist organization carrying out arbitrary killings, collecting illegal money and recruiting new soldiers. In [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | May 17, 2017 Four miners were shot dead and seven seriously wounded this morning when security forces opened fire on freelance miners who had been barred from scavenging for jade scraps at a site [...]