Burma News International (BNI) | October 27, 2016 Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO)’s Information Officer Lt-Col Naw Bu warned that fighting might escalate in Kachin Independence Army (KIA) controlled areas in Kachin and northern Shan states following Burma Army reinforcements [...]
By Sai Wansai/ Shan Herald Agency for New (SHAN) | October 25, 2016 As the war in Kachin and Shan States has been going on and off for a few years, with a newly exploded rebellion of the Rohingya [...]
By Aik Sai / Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA) | October 22, 2016 Since only ethnic armed groups that inked nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) are allowed to lead the national level political discourses, problems will surely arise for those leading the [...]
Mizzima | October 19, 2016 The government has agreed to four out of eight points demanded by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and accepted the remaining four points inprinciple and as a result, the Delegation for Political Negotiation [...]
By Lun Min Mang / Myanmar Times | October 14, 2016 The Delegation for Political Negotiation is meeting in Nay Pyi Taw tomorrow with the government’s peace commission, a member of the commission said yesterday. The DPN is a negotiating body [...]
By Joe Kumbun / Mizzima | October 13, 2016 As we move towards the end of the year, civil war continues to rage across the country especially in Kachin State. Numerous negotiations have taken places but to date, no quantifiable [...]
Briefing by Ethnic Nationalities Affairs Centre (ENAC) | October 12, 2016 The Burma Army, also known as Tatmadaw, has escalated its military offensives against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) with air strikes, artillery, and ground forces. Residents in Kachin State [...]
By Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | October 11, 2016 On the heels of the massive anti-war demonstration in Myitkyina, involving thousands of demonstrators, United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) issued a seven point statement on [...]
By Stella Naw / The Irrawaddy | October 10, 2016 In Burma’s general election in November 2015, many ethnic Kachin voted in support of the National League for Democracy (NLD) based on party leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s promises of [...]
Statement by United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | October 8, 2016 The current battles in the Kachin, Shan and Karen States, in addition to injuring thousands of local people and forcing them to abandon their hearths and homes and [...]