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June 14, 2011
Civil war broke out in Kachin State with the passing of the dead line for an order by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) calling for the withdrawal...
June 14, 2011
IMNA – This morning at 11:55 a.m. Burmese time, a Karen armed group shot RPG fire at a Three Pagodas Pass (TPP) resident’s home.
June 14, 2011
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) destroyed the bridge used for deploying more Burmese troops to the front where recent battles were fought near two...
June 14, 2011
The June 12th closure of the last remaining liaison office of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), in Myitkyina, the Capital of Kachin State,...
June 13, 2011
By Independent Mon News Agency – Dozens of Karen villagers who reside in Quarter 4, Taung Wine, in Three Pagodas Pass fled to Three Pagodas Pass...
June 13, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – All Burmese military offensives against Kachin armed groups must stop no later than midnight Monday, according to an ultimatum...
June 13, 2011
Chittagong, Bangladesh: The United States Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, Eric P. Schwartz, said on June 9...
June 13, 2011
Maungdaw, Arakan State: Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officers arrested a police officer’s family with a large quantity of Yaba (methamphetamine)...
June 13, 2011
The 3-day 6th Congress of Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC) held on the Thai-Burmese border, 9-11 June, ended with a resolution to struggle on in...
June 13, 2011
The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) yesterday was attacked by the Burma Army with its MA-10 mortars forcing the SSA to retreat...
June 13, 2011
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The office of the UN secretary-general says a new full-time UN envoy to Burma could be appointed ‘in due time’ as a result of...
June 11, 2011
Fighting resumed this afternoon at around 4 p.m. local time between the Burmese Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Burma’s northern...
June 11, 2011
Teachers in central Karen state had to close their schools when they heard the Burma army were attacking villages in the area. Teacher, Saw Nway Oo,...
June 11, 2011
The newly elected Burmese civilian government is desperate to appear to the outside world as a fledgling democracy intent on building a civil society...
June 11, 2011
Karen National Liberation Army sources confirmed that clashes in May in the Walay area of Myawaddy Township between Karen fighters and the Burmese...

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