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Myanmar Army Continues to Live in Denial Over Abuses

Myanmar Army Continues to Live in Denial Over Abuses

Min Aung Hlaing should start by apologising to the Myanmar people and admitting that the army has committed widespread abuses. Then the people of his country may start to believe that the army can actually play a rol ...

Who burned 13 orphan boys alive in Yangon, Myanmar?

Who burned 13 orphan boys alive in Yangon, Myanmar?

Buddhist Nationalism provides the perfect cover for the military elite of Myanmar to continue their decades-long campaign of ethnic cleansing of Muslims, Christians and other indigenous minority groups throughout the ...

The Siege of Kachin State
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The Siege of Kachin State

While the world is dropping sanctions against the military regime in Burma the Kachins are fending off a siege. Woman are raped and killed and thousands of children suffer. It appears as if the world is ignoring the ...

Burma’s Airstrike On Democracy

Burma’s Airstrike On Democracy

“The fighting has intensified right now… We heard the sound of armaments and explosions three times last night… When we visited the refugee camps, the refugees’ faces reflect suffering, anxie ...

Mines of Monywa- what are the limits of Burma’s reform?

Mines of Monywa- what are the limits of Burma’s reform?

Originally published on The Activist Over recent weeks, events around the Letpadaung copper mine near Monywa have sent shockwaves through Burma’s fragile reform process. For months local people including Buddh ...

Blood and Gold: Inside Burma’s Hidden War

Blood and Gold: Inside Burma’s Hidden War

So far, more than 75,000 ethnic Kachin civilians have been driven from their ancestral lands. Human rights groups allege the Burmese army is intentionally attacking civilian areas, with wide-spread evidence of tortur ...

China turns away Burma’s Kachin refugees
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China turns away Burma’s Kachin refugees

Human rights groups say there are documented cases involving around 300 Kachins being forced to return to Burma and others who were turned away at the border. ...

Burma: An Appeal to End Violence in Arakan State

Burma: An Appeal to End Violence in Arakan State

The violence in Arakan State over the past two weeks has caused disillusion for some, division among many, and shock and anguish for everyone. Racial and religious tensions that have simmered just beneath the surface ...

Burma: Fighting Rapidly Escalating In Kachin State

Burma: Fighting Rapidly Escalating In Kachin State

The scale of fighting in Kachin State has increased significantly during the past month, and could be building to an attack on the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) headquarters in Laiza, say observers. The esca ...

What Does Aung San Suu Kyi’s Historic Election Victory Mean For Burma?

What Does Aung San Suu Kyi’s Historic Election Victory Mean For Burma?

Historic barely begins to describe the events taking place in Burma. Less than two years on from a sham general election designed to entrench the rule of the military and its proxies, unprecedentedly free polling in ...

Human Rights Watch: Rape, torture plague Myanmar’s Kachin conflict

Human Rights Watch: Rape, torture plague Myanmar’s Kachin conflict

Source: The Sun Daily BANGKOK (March 20, 2012): Troops in Myanmar have murdered, tortured and raped civilians since fighting with separatists flared up around nine months ago in northern Kachin State, leading to the ...

Burma must end war in Kachin State

Burma must end war in Kachin State

President Thein Sein’s government is currently increasing troops for the offensive against the KIA in Kachin State and northern Shan State ...

China transports Burmese troops inside its border to fight KIA

China transports Burmese troops inside its border to fight KIA

The Chinese army secretly transported dozens of Burmese troops inside its border on Friday morning to fight against the Kachin Independence Army ...

HRW: Burmese Army Committing Abuses in Kachin State

HRW: Burmese Army Committing Abuses in Kachin State

Human Rights Watch conducted a fact-finding mission to the conflict areas in Kachin State in July and August, visiting abandoned villages and eight remote camps of internally displaced persons. Witnesses described se ...

China’s Forbidden News: China Angry over Myitsone Dam
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China’s Forbidden News: China Angry over Myitsone Dam

A report by China's Forbidden News on the Chinese response to Myanmar president Thein Sein's decision to halt construction of the Myitsone mega-dam project... ...

BBC: Burmese Government Halts Controversial Dam Project

BBC: Burmese Government Halts Controversial Dam Project

In a rare concession, the Burmese government has suspended a long planned and highly controversial hydroelectric dam project in the face of growing public opposition. ...

The Chinese Government is Not in Control of the Script

The Chinese Government is Not in Control of the Script

Xi Jinping is still some two years away from taking over as President of China- but already he is playing up his xenophobic, colonialist credentials by publicly threatening to “smash” separatism in Tibet. ...

China’s Kachin Crime

China’s Kachin Crime

"One of Burma’s largest rebel groups could fall, the Kachin people could be left to face the junta’s programme of ethnic cleansing and other minority groups would inevitably follow." ...

Kachin State, Burma: Soldiers Slaughtered, Women Raped in Newly Ignited Civil War

Kachin State, Burma: Soldiers Slaughtered, Women Raped in Newly Ignited Civil War

The firece fighting between troops from Kachin Independence Army, armed wing of Kachin Independence Organization, and Burma Army claimed over a hundred of Burmese soldiers and two batallion commanders' lives within o ...

Civil War Resumes in Burma- Kachin Independence Organization Declares Defensive

Civil War Resumes in Burma- Kachin Independence Organization Declares Defensive

Burma’s main ethnic armed group, the Kachin Independence Organization, today ordered its troops in Kachin State and Northern Shan State to stage defensive war against Burma's Army, warning that the war would b ...