The ongoing use of landmines by the Burma Army and armed groups in Eastern Burma continues to threaten civilians according to a report released this week by the Karen Human Rights Group. The KHRG report – ‘Uncertain Ground’ – documents the period
Conflicts & refugees
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Cross-line NGOs in Kachin
Friday, April 13 2012
Local NGOs in northern Myanmar with access to both sides of an ongoing conflict between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) are playing a key role in addressing the needs of thousands of displaced. The KIA has been fighting for
The economic cost of conflict
Saturday, March 31 2012
First, we should look at the pure financial cost of these civil wars. Second, who paid for it? Third, what if we had used that money for the development of the region where the fighting has taken place instead of the wars? Fourth, who benefited from
HRW : Reforms yet to reach Kachin State
Tuesday, March 20 2012
The Burmese government has committed serious abuses and blocked humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of displaced civilians since June 2011, in fighting in Burma’s northern Kachin State, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Some
15,000 Kachin refugees with no access to humanitarian aid
Thursday, March 1 2012
As many as 15,000 Kachin refugees are now living in the shadows on the Chinese border with no access to humanitarian aid or legal protection, according to a local support group who says that international assistance is urgently needed. The warning
Preliminary peace pacts : including the release of all political prisoners
Monday, February 27 2012
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) signed a four-point preliminary peace agreement with the Burmese Union government on Sunday. The four points concern seeking ethnic peace across the country, holding political talks within 45 days, coordination on
A Kachin female leader receives U.S. award
Monday, February 27 2012
A National Democratic Force (NDF) candidate in Kachin state, Bauk Ja was honoured on February 17 by the Mid-Atlantic Kachin Christian Fellowship, according to an article on the Kachin News website. As a spokesperson for a group of farmers who sued
Government negociator : Our plan for eternal peace
Friday, February 17 2012
In his first interview with a foreign news organization, Aung Min, a retired general and the current minister appointed by President Thein Sein to solve the decades old hostilities, told Reuters news agency the government and ethnic armed groups were
Investigations are “not appropriate"
Wednesday, February 15 2012
Ethnic conflict issues in Burma are off-limits to investigations by the Burmese Human Rights Commission (HRC), the commission chairman said in a press conference on Tuesday. Win Mra told journalists in Bangkok that attempts at reconciliation were
Humanitarian concern about Kachin war refugees
Thursday, February 2 2012
Humanitarian workers in northern Burma have expressed deep concern about the health conditions of thousands of war refugees in Kachin State who have been displaced along the Sino-Burmese border for eight months. Aid workers said that preventable
Timori per le condizioni igienico-sanitarie.
Thursday, February 2 2012
I profughi Kachin, che da mesi hanno abbandonato le loro case per il conflitto fra esercito birmano e milizie ribelli, hanno "paura" di rientrare perché temono una nuova ondata di violenze. A dispetto dei colloqui di pace fra rappresentati
“I think refugee repatriation is still far away,”
Wednesday, January 25 2012
“Progress can be seen only in big cities, not in our hometown,” says 61-year-old Saw Raw, sitting on the balcony of his house at the Mae La Oon refugee camp in Mae Sariang District in northern Thailand.“I think the day is still far away when we will
Rohingya children bear exclusion, restrictions and arbitrary treatment
Saturday, January 21 2012
The government has continued with a discriminatory policy against the Rohingya ethnic group in the country’s western Arakan state that includes banning Rohingya children born out of wedlock from obtaining travel permits, attending school and, in the
Following the cease-fire agreement, release Karen prisoners ?
Wednesday, January 18 2012
Imprisoned members of the Karen National Union (KNU) and innocent civilians who might have aided the KNU should be freed following the signing of a cease-fire agreement between the KIO and the Burmese government, say KNU officials. “We will demand
500,000 internally-displaced people
Thursday, January 12 2012
There are an estimated 500,000 internally-displaced people (IDPs) in Burma, and three million Burmese refugees in other countries. There are also some 800,000 stateless Rohingyas in the west of the country, who live in dire humanitarian conditions
Bomb explosion in Karen state : who ?
Tuesday, January 10 2012
A bomb explosion at the weekend in Karen state that left four dead and over 30 injured was not the work of the rebel Karen National Union (KNU), its spokesperson has said. The blast occurred during a pagoda festival at Ahnankwin village, outside the
Muslim Rohingya refugees : “forgotten people”.
Saturday, December 17 2011
Human rights groups say hundreds of ethnic Muslim Rohingya refugees from Burma have fled their temporary homes in Bangladesh, hoping to sail to nearby countries to escape discrimination and rights abuses. The flight of the refugees includes many
Kachin : preparing for an escalation of the conflict ?
Saturday, December 17 2011
Burma's army is using helicopters to send reinforcements to Kachin State in a bid to avoid ambushes by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), despite a call from the country's president to halt fighting, according to sources in the conflict area. La
We shall restore peace during the tenure of this government
Saturday, December 17 2011
“As you know, there’s been no peace for over 60 years. These armed groups are still in our country even after 60 years. Our country is the sole such country in the world. So the world looks down on us and looks down on our entire country. We want our
UN refugee agency's visiting Myanmar
Friday, December 16 2011
Erika Feller, the UN refugee agency's most senior protection official, recently paid a significant visit to Myanmar, where UNHCR has operations in Rakhine state in the west, and in the south-east of the country, where displacement along the
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