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February 21, 2014
Thai Burma border based Karen groups meet to discuss broad collaboration on a diverse set of issues, including emergency response and how to best...
February 20, 2014
The Geba ethnic group currently incorrectly classified as a Karenni ethnic sub-group by the government has called on the government and relevant...
February 19, 2014
The Burma government and a Thai company have agreed to pay compensation to farmers for damaging or taking their land while building the Asian Highway...
February 18, 2014
Karen leaders have gotten together to discuss the classification of the Karen people in the upcoming national census.
February 17, 2014
The Karen National Union’s (KNU) Vice-Chairperson, Padoh Naw Zipporah Sein, urged Karen people to recall the four founding objectives of their...
February 14, 2014
Landowners in Hpa-an Township are frustrated that they have to pay yearly rent to use lands that once belonged to them, but were confiscated by the...
February 13, 2014
The building of shelters to replace those destroyed by a fire last week in Umpeim Mai Refugee Camp, Tak Province, is being delayed by a lack of...
February 13, 2014
The conflict, which has lasted for more than two years, has seen the displacement of an estimated 80,000 Kachin people and reports of human rights...
February 12, 2014
Even as Burma opens up to the world under President Thein Sein’s nominally civilian government, serious human rights abuses continue to occur,...
February 12, 2014
A line of soldiers adorned in flowered garlands threaded their way across the Karen National Defence Organisation’s parade ground in Karen State.
February 12, 2014
A number of international human rights groups and media watchdog organisations condemned the Burma government for jailing five journalists for...
February 11, 2014
Three soldiers from Burma Army Light Infantry Battalion 549 held seven Karen villagers hostage, demanding cash for their return, claims Free Burma...
February 7, 2014
General Ner Dah Mya, head of the Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) has called for Burma’s government to “show sincerity” and commit to a ‘...
February 6, 2014
The General Secretary of the Karen National Union, P’Doh Saw Kwe Htoo Win, called for Karen unity at a ceremony marking the 65th Karen Revolution Day...
February 5, 2014
Writting by Pon Nya Mon – Over the past couple years many scholars, activists, and politicians have been debating on whether or not to allow the...

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