By Banya Hongsar for Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 06, 2016 Historical ethnic political alliance: The leaders of ethnic armed insurgencies expressed in a formal statement that ‘in the deliberation, we determined that since the time of independence [...]
By Banya Hongsar for Mon News Agency (MNA) | June 01, 2016 The politics of alliance has never been defined in its own narrative within the ethnic writer and scholar in modern political literature in English. However, it has [...]
By Phanida for Mizzima News | June 02, 2016 The new peace negotiating team created by the NLD-led government will have an informal meeting with the ethnic armed organisations that did not sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), on [...]
By Phanida for Mizzima News | June 02, 2016 The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) and Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) had a meeting on 1June in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to discuss ongoing fighting between the SSA [...]
Sai Wansai / Shan Herald Agency for News (SHAN) | May 31, 2016 The Aung San Suu Kyi-headed Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), which is made up of Union Government, Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) and Political Parties, with [...]
By Roland Watson, Dictator Watch | May 24, 2016 There have been a number of significant events in Burma in the last two weeks. However, it is difficult to discern how they might come together - what their overall [...]
By Saw Yan Naing & Kyaw Kha, The Irrawaddy | May 20, 2016 RANGOON — While State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi beats the drum for a “21st Century Panglong Conference” to resolve decades-long ethnic conflict in Burma’s border regions, [...]
Opinion Article by Sai Wansai, Shan Herald News Agency (SHAN) | May 17, 2016 When the Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing declared quite recently that he was toeing the line of Aung San Suu Kyi’s 21st Century Panglong initiative, it looks [...]
Statement by the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) | February 21, 2016 1. The UNFC (extended) council meeting was held successfully from February 18 to 21, 2016. The meeting reviewed various aspects of the current political and military situations, [...]
Khu Oo Reh, The Irrawaddy | January 28, 2016 In 2016,the question of lifting the on-going arms embargo and related sanctions against the Tatmadaw, as the Burma Army is known, and its civilian cronies will be revisited by Western [...]