Burma Link | October 5, 2015 Naw Mu Gay, 22, wanted to join the Karen army since a young age. Coming from a large family, Naw Mu Gay’s father found it hard to provide for everyone, having to work [...]
Karen News | September 28, 2015 The people of Burma will go the polls on November 8, 2015. Karen News talked to a wide range of people to get their views on the election and what they hoped it [...]
Karen community groups claim the Karen National Union is ignoring their concerns about the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement with the government. The claims came at a meeting 15 community-based Karen groups had with the KNU leaders to discuss the nationwide ceasefire agreement. […]
According to accepted negotiating practice, no agreement is better than a bad agreement. Nonetheless, many ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) are now agreeing to sign the current Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). It is as if – just like Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – these EAOs have gone down a rabbit hole into a Ceasefire Wonderland created by the Tatmadaw [Burma’s armed forces] […]
Dear General Mutu Sae Poe, The International Karen Organization (IKO) is deeply troubled to learn that you were invited as a special guest of the quasi-civilian government of Thein Sein to the opening ceremony of the Asian Highway 1 (AH1) from Myawaddy to Kawkareik on 30 August. […]
Open letter to the KNU (Karen National Union) by the IKO (International Karen Organization) | August 24, 2015 The International Karen Organization Comprising of Karen Organizations from all over the world is very apprehensive about the statement issued after the [...]
Summary of a KHRG interview in Thaton District, Karen State | August 26, 2015 Below are excerpts of Karen Human Rights Group’s (KHRG) interview with Ma A---, a Karen villager who describes events occurring in her village in June [...]
Extract of KHRG incident report from Thaton (Doo Tha Htoo) District | August 26, 2015 Below is an extract of Karen Human Rights Group’s (KHRG) News Bulletin describing an incident in which the Burma/Myanmar government police force and Burma/Myanmar [...]
Burma Link | July 21, 2015 The Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) Day was celebrated at the KNDO Headquarters in the Karen State on July 16, 2015. The KNDO, one of the world’s oldest existing revolutionary armed groups, was [...]
Karen Women's Organization (KWO) | July 8, 2015 The Karen Women’s Organization (“KWO”) collected information regarding continuing serious human rights abuses perpetrated by the Burma Army in all seven districts in Karen State from January to June 2015. Our [...]