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July 25, 2011
Reports emerged last week from Kachin and Shan States that rape is still being used as a tactic by the Burmese army to demoralise and terrorise...
July 25, 2011
The Burma Army has assembled 42 infantry battalions with 14 of them around the Shan State Army (SSA) headquarters of Wanhai backed by supporting...
July 25, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi told reporters on Monday that her one-hour meeting with Union level Minister Aung...
July 25, 2011
A political activist who was sentenced to 65 years in prison for his involvement in the Saffron Revolution demonstrations has been hospitalized as an...
July 25, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Bad weather has been ruled out as the cause of a third Thai army helicopter crash near the Burma border on Sunday, according...
July 25, 2011
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Nay Myo Zin, a leading volunteer of a blood donation group and a former military officer, who is being tried in a special court...
July 23, 2011
China limited the hours for crossing at its key border gate at Laiza, the capital of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), beginning July 22,...
July 23, 2011
An estimated 20,000 bottles of locally made alcohol is being sold in Falam town of Chin state, Burma annually.
July 23, 2011
Burmese residing in New Delhi staged a demonstration yesterday to express their disappointment over India government supplying arms and ammunition in...
July 22, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A former military intelligence officer, ex-Col San Pwint, who was imprisoned by the Burmese military government in 2004,...
July 22, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A Burmese government artillery unit fired more than 20 shells on Thursday at the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)...
July 22, 2011
Rangoon (Mizzima) – A Rangoon Region Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) official said that the USDP would grant loans, totaling 10 billion...
July 22, 2011
Burmese troops mistakenly killed 3 and injured 7 of their own personnel on July 20 at 6:30 p.m. Burma Standard Time, on the road between Myitkyina...
July 22, 2011
Kutupalong, Bangladesh: Three refugees from the unregistered Kutupalong camp were seriously injured in an accident near the camp early this morning,...
July 22, 2011
Kutupalong, Bangladesh: One unregistered refugee child was killed in torrential rain with strong winds followed by landslides, which destroyed more...

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