KIC
2012-11-26
Karen community based organizations from inside Burma want the Karen National Union leaders to put the people’s interest first in the ongoing ‘peace...
2012-11-23
In the recent President’s amnesty, 65 prisoners were granted their freedom, including a Karen lawyer who had been charged for being disrespectful to...
2012-11-23
Karen villagers working in their rice fields and plantations were terrified when jet fighters starting dropping bombs and machine-gunning the area...
2012-11-23
Burmese migrant workers say delays of up to six months in processing their temporary passports so they can get a legal work permit to allow them to...
2012-11-22
The Karen National Union in Southern Burma says a coal extraction operation near Karen villages in eastern Tavoy is not welcome. Villagers are...
2012-11-21
The Karen National Union claim move by the Burma Army to force Karen villagers to attend militia training will damage trust between the two sides...
2012-11-19
An independent human rights organisation has reported that the ceasefire between the government and the Karen national union has brought respite for...
2012-11-19
The spokesperson of an Italian non-government organization, Popolis, which has been working in Karen State since 2001, said it would only operate in...
2012-11-19
Despite a ceasefire agreement between Burma’s military backed government and the Karen National Union (KNU) in January of this year, community based...
2012-11-19
The Karen National Union’s (KNU) next four-year Congress and elections will be held on 26 November. The KNU Congress is also the political...
2012-11-16
The Karen Baptist Convention (Burma) has invited officials from the Karen National Union and community based organizations on the Thai-Burma border...
2012-11-15
The Nationalities Brotherhood Forum, an ethnic alliance, issued a statement on November 11 expressing their willingness for the emergence of federal...
2012-11-14
A sergeant from the ethnic armed group Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) was arrested and killed by the Burma Army at Pan Ku village in in...
2012-11-14
The Burma army began repairing the road in Thandaung Township, Karen State at the beginning of November. But the road isn’t being used for the...
2012-11-14
Access to further education opportunities for migrant children was the subject of a seminar held in the Thai border town of Mae Sot this week.