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U Thein Sein Government Should Drop the Grave Charges Against Mahn Nyein Maung
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), AAPP-B, requests the U Thein Sein government to drop the spurious and trumped-up charges recently brought against a prominent Karen leader. Mahn Nyein Maung, a member of the Karen National Union Central Committee, is currently under trial facing charges under High Treason (122/1 of the penal code) and the Unlawful Associations Act (17/1). Both charges carry heavy sentences that are unwarranted in Mahn Nyein Maung’s case […]
• • •Launch of India-Burma Relations (1990-2011) Report & Interactive Session on Burma
Burma Centre Delhi (BCD) in collaboration with Journalist Forum Assam (JFA) organized “Interactive Session on Changing Policies in Burma: Opportunities and Challenges” at the Press Club, Guwahati, Assam […]
• • •Report on the Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in Burma
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the Burma support groups Info Birmanie (France) and the Swedish Burma Committee (Sweden) release a report on the Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in Burma […]
• • •Unending Brutal crackdown on Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrant
The brutal crackdown on refugees, asylum seekers and migrants has been on the rise and unending. The Home Ministry recently had announced the extension to register under the 6P to 10 April 2012, despite that refugees […]
• • •Position Statement on Cease-fire Talks
Representatives of Karenni Community Based Organizations (CBOs) held a meeting on March 5, 2012, to exchange their opinions and views on the cease-fire talks between the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and […]
• • •Karen Women Organization Condemns the Attempted Rape of a 22-Year-Old Karen Woman by the Burmese Army
The Karen Women Organization today has begun caring for a 22 year old mother who was viciously attacked yesterday by two members of the Burmese Military. The two soldiers attempted to rape her while she was working to grow vegetables for her family. The victim has been badly beaten and drugged. She was only able to escape when nearby gunfire caused the soldiers to leave. This case of violence against a young woman in our community is particularly disturbing as it confirms previous reports of continued human rights violations against women […]
• • •Karen People Worldwide Call for Genuine Peace and a Federal Union of Burma
Representatives from Karen organizations worldwide today call for genuine peace throughout Burma and for national reconciliation towards the establishment of a federal union. They also appealed to the international community, especially the European Union and the United States, to maintain pressure on the Burmese Government until there is tangible political change for the Karen and for all the people of Burma […]
• • •Statement from Karen Worldwide Conference
A Karen Worldwide Conference was held on 27 February to 1 March 2012 regarding the current political situation in Burma and the future of Karen people. A total of 167 participants comprised of Karen communities, religious leaders, and representatives from women, youth and other Karen ethnic organizations, from both inside Burma and overseas, attended the conference […]
• • •KNU – ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရံုး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႏွင့္ျမန္မာ အစိုးရ ေတြ႕ဆံုျခင္းႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္
ေကအဲန္ယူ – ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရံုး (ဗဟို) ႏွင့္ျမန္မာအစိုးရကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားသည္ (၂/ ၃/ ၂၀၁၂) နယ္စပ္တေနရာတြင္ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ယင္းေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမႈတြင္ ခုိင္မာေသာ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးရရွိရန္အတြက္ […]
• • •Campaigners Around the World Call to Postpone Destructive Chinese Pipelines in Burma
130 organizations over 20 countries today held demonstrations and submitted letters calling on Burma’s President Thein Sein to postpone China’s trans-Burma oil and gas pipelines project. The letter expressed serious concerns over human rights abuses as well as […]
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