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November 14, 2024
Junta Shelling Injures Two Children in Kyaukkyi Township, Bago Region
November 14, 2024
Junta Using Its Soldiers’ Families as Human Shields
November 12, 2024
KNU Seizes Base Held by Myanmar Army for 70 Years
September 15, 2016
Burmese Government Bulldoze Village in Chin State
Burmese Government have been criticised by a frontline human rights organisation after a village in Chin State was bulldozed.
KNU Troops
September 15, 2016
KNU and Burma Army Clash in Karen State
The Burma Army skirmished with Karen National Union (KNU) troops in the KNU Brigade 7 controlled area of Htee Lay Koe Hta in Hlaingbwe Township,...
September 14, 2016
Karen Party Proposes Constitutional Reform to Give the People ‘More Say’
The Karen People’s Party (KPP) has formally submitted a proposal for constitutional reform with the object of making the State Chief Ministers...
September 14, 2016
KNU Calls on the Burma Army and Its Militia to End its Military Operations...
The Karen National Union has issued a public statement today, September 13, objecting to and calling for an end to fighting in Mae Tha Wor between...
September 12, 2016
KNU and NMSP Reach Agreement
Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP) officials reached an agreement that should prevent any further fighting between them at...
September 12, 2016
Villagers Flee as Govt Militia Reinforce Mae Tha Wor, Karen State
As many as 2,000 villagers from 12 villages in Mae Tha Wor areas have fled their villages in fear of being caught in the crossfire between the Burma...
Press Conference Launch of MYPO Report on Salween River Dams
September 10, 2016
Report Details Harm Salween River Dams Could Cause
The Mon Youth Progressive Organisation (MYPO) has released a report analysing the potential damage to six townships in Mon and Karen States when...
September 9, 2016
HRW: US Government ‘Should Retain Key Sanctions’
The New York based human rights organisation Human Rights Watch has called on the US Government to retain ‘key sanctions’ in order to keep pressure...
EAO Leaders at the Union Peace Conference
September 9, 2016
Genuine Ethnic Views Expressed at Union Peace Conference
Ethnic armed organisation (EAO) leaders who attended the first Union Peace Conference (the 21st Century Panglong Conference) believe that the genuine...
KNU Meeting About Union Peace Conference
September 8, 2016
KNU Hold Meeting About Union Peace Conference
After attending the Union Peace Conference (the 21st Century Panglong Conference) from 31 August to 3 September KNU members met with local youths,...
September 8, 2016
Karen State Fighting Escalates
Armed clashes broke out in Karen State between splinter Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) forces and government backed militia.
September 8, 2016
Ethnic Leader Says Now Is Not The Time to Lay Down Arms
Ethnic leaders have warned that now is not the time to give up arms, in reaction to a speech calling for disarmament by the Burmese Commander-in-...