For many years in Myanmar, the military held an authoritarian government which, under the justification of stability, particularly in border areas, committed systematic and gross human rights abuses. A formally civilian government now has assumed
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Crimes in Kachin. A 59-page report of first-hand testimony and frontline photographs
Sunday, December 4 2011
© Partners Relief & Development The 59-page report documents first-hand testimony and frontline photographs of the increasingly brutal civil war in Burma’s Kachin State, which broke out on June 9 between the Burma army and the Kachin
We want the government to stop hindering aid workers
Thursday, December 1 2011
To help cut the winter cold, the Rangoon- based Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS) has sent blankets and coats to war refugees in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State. The aid will be dispatched to refugees camps in Myitkyina and Waimaw.
Minorities suffer abuses despite reforms
Wednesday, November 30 2011
Deep in jungles far from the international spotlight, Burma’s army continues to torture and kill civilians in campaigns to stamp out some of the world's longest-running insurgencies. With minorities making up some 40 % of Burma’s 56 million people
Kachin villagers flee an intensifying conflict
Saturday, November 19 2011
More than 1,000 villagers in southern Kachin State have taken shelter in makeshift camps in the jungle after fleeing their homes to avoid being caught in the crossfire of an intensifying conflict between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Burmese
'Bringing Justice to Women of Burma’ : rape of ethnic women
Tuesday, November 8 2011
A film ‘Bringing Justice to Women of Burma’ show strong evidence that rape of ethnic women by Burmese troops is endemic, and could be a deliberate policy of the country’s military in its ongoing conflicts in the country’s border regions. It claims
Pakokku : thousands of flood victims lacking aid
Thursday, October 27 2011
Victims of the devastating floods in central Burma are seeking shelter at monasteries in the worst-hit town of Pakokku but locals there say aid is urgently required in light of the government’s apparent stalling over emergency relief efforts. The
HRW condemns Burmese Army abuses in Kachin State
Wednesday, October 19 2011
Since hostilities began over five months ago against the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Burmese armed forces have been responsible for killings and attacks on civilians, using forced labor, and pillaging villages, which has resulted in the
Monks used as human shields
Saturday, September 24 2011
Monks were reportedly among a group of civilians used as human shields by the Burmese army during an operation to deliver supplies to frontline troops in Shan state on Sunday last week. About 35 men and women, as well as monks from the monastery in
“l’inizio” di una evoluzione nel Paese. L’attenzione concentrata sugli sviluppi della diga nello Stato Kachin.
Friday, September 23 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi, collegata via web dalla propria casa a Yangon, è intervenuta alla riunione del Clinton Global Initiative (Cgi) a New York. Accolta da un lungo applauso, la leader della Lega nazionale per la democrazia (Nld) ha invitato la comunità
ျမန္မာကေလးစစ္သားအေရး ဖိအားေပးရန္ အေမရိကန္ကို တိုက္တြန္း
Thursday, August 4 2011
ျမန္မာျပည္မွ ကေလးစစ္သားမ်ားကို အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုတြင္ အေျခခ်ခိုလံႈခြင့္ေပးေရး ကူညီရန္ သမၼတ အိုဘားမား အစိုးရအား ကေလးစစ္သားေဟာင္း ဟိန္းမင္းေအာင္က အေမရိကန္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ၾကားနာပြဲတြင္ တိုက္တြန္းသြားသည္။ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွာ က်ေနာ့္ရဲ႕ အျဖစ္အပ်က္ကို
Urging US to help child soldiers
Thursday, August 4 2011
Hein Min Aung, a former child soldier from Burma, urged the Obama administration at a congressional hearing on Wednesday to help in the resettlement of others like him in the United States. “It is my hope that by telling my story in the United
Il regime birmano “usa” Aung San Suu Kyi per coprire le violenze contro i Kachin
Monday, August 1 2011
La guerra civile fra esercito birmano e milizie etniche Kachin, nell’omonimo Stato a nord del Myanmar, lungo la frontiera con la Cina, continua a causare ondate di profughi in fuga oltreconfine. I soldati minacciano la popolazione civile, uccidono e
HRW : les abus envers les porteurs constituent des crimes de guerre
Tuesday, July 12 2011
Le rapport de 70 pages, intitulé "Au péril de leur vie : Les détenus utilisés comme porteurs sur les lignes de front de l'est birman" expose en détails les exactions dont les porteurs sont victimes : exécutions sommaires, torture, et
HRW Report : abusive treatment of forced porters constitutes war crimes
Tuesday, July 12 2011
The 70-page report Dead Men Walking: Convict Porters on the Front Lines in Eastern Burma details abuses against convict porters including summary executions, torture, and the use of the convicts as "human shields." The military should stop
Soldati birmani in borghese assaltano e derubano la popolazione kachin
Saturday, July 2 2011
Lo Stato Kachin, nel nord del Myanmar, al confine con la Cina, da alcune settimane è teatro di una guerra civile fra i ribelli del Kachin Indipendence Army (Kia) e l’esercito birmano. Il Kia è il secondo gruppo etnico armato per numeri e importanza
Civil war in Kachin : using prisoners and villagers
Sunday, June 19 2011
More than 150 prisoners in Insein Prison in Rangoon were transported to an unknown location by authorities on Thursday. Most of those selected were long-term prisoners. Some observers said the government might be planning to use the prisoners as
Burmese government troops are using local women as human shields and forced porters
Wednesday, April 27 2011
“There are very few men in the villages now because most have fled the area for fear of being conscripted as porters. So now the troops are taking women and forcing them to march to the front line with them, as a way to prevent guerrilla attacks from
Burmese refugees in Malaysia : 6000 have been registered by UNHCR
Tuesday, August 31 2010
At the end of June 2010, about 88,900 refugees and asylum-seekers were registered with the UNHCR in Malaysia, according to the UNHCR website. Of those, 82,200 were refugees from Burma, comprising 38,700 Chin, 10,000 Rohingya, 7,000 Burmese Muslims,
190,000 children have been forcibly displaced in eastern Burma
Thursday, April 8 2010
According to a report titled “Displaced Childhoods”released by Free Burma Rangers (FBR) and Partners, in 2009 alone there were about 112,000 villages in eastern Burma displaced due to direct or indirect actions by the Burmese regime. Children are
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