The International Community Must Stop Funding Gvt’s Attacks on Kachin Civilians: Moon Nay Li, General Secretary of KWAT
Burma Link | August 3, 2015 Moon Nay Li is the General Secretary of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), an organisation which she joined in 2002 in order to work for her people and [...]
‘We Are Not Rebels… We Fight for Democracy’: Ta’ang (TNLA) Soldiers
Burma Link | July 13, 2015 Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), the armed wing of Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF), is one of the ethnic resistance armed organisations that vows not to lay down arms [...]
Karen Major General Nerdah Bo Mya: ‘The Government Is Playing the Game’
By Burma Link, April 7, 2015 Nerdah Bo Mya is a Major General and the Chief of Staff of the Karen National Defence Organization (KNDO), which was founded in 1947 to protect the Karen people [...]
PWO Part Two: Empowering Women Whilst Facing Conflict, Poverty, and an Opiate Epidemic
You can’t visit all the areas where the Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) works. Even if you could get past the many arms of Burma’s military regime that keep foreigners away, you wouldn’t want to. You would have to face bloody conflict […]
PWO Part One: ‘It’s the women and children that are suffering’
The northern Shan state, home to a majority of the Ta’ang people (referred to as ‘Palaung’ by others), is among the least accessible areas in Burma. These areas host some of the bloodiest conflict, the most poppy cultivation, extremely high rates of opium addiction, and crippling poverty. The Palaung […]
Lway Chee Sangar: Reclaiming Rights After a Childhood of Labor, Hardship, and Conflict
"We had never heard about human rights in the village," Lway Chee Sangar tells me at the Palaung Women's Organization (PWO) office in Mae Sot, Thailand. Sangar is 23 years old. The ethnic nationality group to which she belongs […]
Ta’ang (Palaung) Leader Tar Aik Bong: ‘Without Proper Political Solutions, There Will Be No Lasting Peace’
In an exclusive interview with Burma Link, Tar Aik Bong, leader of the Ta'ang (Palaung), discusses the Ta’ang conflict, the drug crisis, and the brutal tactics that the Burmese military uses against Ta’ang civilians in order to cut the opposition […]
Ta’ang (Palaung) Leader’s Message to the International Community: ‘Come and See the Real Picture in Our Areas’
Currently the Burmese military has been increasing its troops inside Ta’ang areas in northern Shan State and intensified armed battles have broken out in Ta’ang areas since U Thein Sein became President […]