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June 15, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Amnesty International has called on Burmese President Thein Sein to allow the 'urgent establishment' of the proposed...
June 15, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Local authorities have ordered 19 Kachin students in Thanlyin Township in Rangoon to return to their hometowns in Kachin State...
June 15, 2011
An exodus of refugees has begun near the Chinese border in northern Burma fearing that they will be recruited as porters by the Burmese Army as the...
June 15, 2011
In a stepped up offensive, the Burmese government has placed under house-arrest Zahkung Ting Ying, the National Parliament’s representative and...
June 15, 2011
In a bid to keep marauding Burmese Army at bay the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) destroyed two key bridges in Northern Shan State by planting...
June 15, 2011
About 300 Chinese dam workers, who seemed to be hijacked by the Burmese Army in the war zone at the Taping Hydropower Project, were evacuated to the...
June 14, 2011
Maungdaw, Arakan State: The village administration head officer and officers from the Burma border security force (Nasaka) personnel station at Kyauk...
June 14, 2011
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Police officers from the district police department are harassing the Rohingya community in Maungdaw after the district...
June 14, 2011
Latest information today says about 5 battalions of Burma Army troops were sent to Wanhai, new headquarters of Shan State Army (SSA), the armed wing...
June 14, 2011
The Kachin opposition political organization abroad, known as the Kachin National Organization (KNO), condemns the recent offensive of the Burmese...
June 14, 2011
The KIA rejects Burmese government’s ceasefire offer, made after it occupied the KIA’s Bum Sen Post Sunday evening, said KIA officials at the Laiza...
June 14, 2011
The Burmese government’s decision to issue an amnesty order to reduce all prisoners’ sentences by one year that was issued in May has been widely...
June 14, 2011
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army border guard force (BGF) in Myawaddy Township in Karen State has turned to a lottery system to recruit new...
June 14, 2011
Traders operating along the No. 2, Indo-Burma border road are in a spot due to a drop in the rate of the Kyat vis a vis the Indian Rupee after the...
June 14, 2011
Local people have been exhorted not to deploy teenage Chin women in government functions and reception venues by Mr. No Than Kap, the elected Chin...

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