By Stella Naw / The Irrawaddy | December 20, 2016 The Burma Army attack on the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) outpost of Gideon started in September. Four months later, after intensified fire from the air and ground, Gideon fell [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | December 19, 2016 A spokesperson for the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) has confirmed recent media speculation that the ethnic coalition Northern Alliance is willing to sit down for peace talks with Burmese [...]
By Pangmu Shayi / Kachinland News (KLN) | December 17, 2016 A newly formed coalition of ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) calling itself the Northern Alliance-Burma (NA-B), began launching coordinated strikes against Burma Army positions in Northern Shan State on November [...]
By Thu Thu Aung / Myanmar Times | December 15, 2016 Renewed clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army have kicked off in upper Paletwa township, Chin State, with some 200 people displaced on December 12. “Two-hundred IDPs [internally displaced [...]
Kachinland News (KLN) | December 14, 2016 The bodies of three murdered Mongkoe residents were recovered by civilians on December 11. The Burmese army troops had clandestinely buried the bodies after brutally torturing and killing the victims, locals reported [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | December 12, 2106 The eight ethnic armed groups that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with the Burmese government in 2015 have denounced last week’s parliamentary motions to label the Northern Alliance a [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | December 11, 2016 Sithu Aung Myint usually produce unbiased commentary if not always. But lately he seems to be betting more on Aung San Suu Kyi’s wisdom and [...]
Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | December 9, 2016 On November 20, four of Burma’s ethnic armed groups – the Arakan Army (AA), Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), and Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) [...]
Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) | December 7, 2016 The bodies of nine policemen, who were allegedly killed by the rebel Northern Alliance, were recovered on Tuesday in the border town of Mongko, according to a local law enforcement [...]
By Thu Thu Aung / The Myanmar Times | December 7, 2016 A proposal to designate the Northern Alliance-Burma as a terrorist group is set to be discussed in the Shan State legislature, following the voting down of a [...]