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Preliminary Agreement between the Chin State Government and Chin National Front

An unofficial translation by Chinland Guardian of the preliminary peace agreement between the Chin National Front and the Chin State Government following peace talks in Hakha.

January 6, 2012  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Union-Level Agreement with the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army – 5th Brigade

An unofficial translation of the union-level agreement between the Union Peace Making Committee and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army – 5th Brigade.

December 11, 2011  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Under Siege in Kachin State, Burma

In September 2011, PHR conducted an investigation in Burma’s Kachin State in response to reports of grave human rights violations in the region. PHR found that between June and September 2011, the Burmese army looted food from civilians, fired indiscriminately into villages, threatened villages with attacks, and used civilians as porters and human minesweepers […]

November 30, 2011  •  By Physicians for Human Rights  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Crimes in Northern Burma: Results from a Fact-Finding Mission to Kachin State

On 9 June 2011, civil war broke out in northern Burma between the Burma Army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), ending a 17-year long ceasefire agreement. This report presents data collected from a Partners investigation in southern Kachin State, Burma in October 2011 […]

November 28, 2011  •  By Partners Relief & Development  •  Tags: , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးသံုးသပ္ခ်က္ (၃/၂၀၁၁) – ဓါးမိုး၍ ညႊတ္ကြင္းမသြင္းသင့္သည့္ ျပည္တြင္းျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္ ၁၉၄၈ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဇန္နဝါရီလ (၄) ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ျဗိတိသွ်နယ္ခ်ဲ႕ကိုလိုနီလက္ေအာက္မွ လြတ္လပ္ေရး ရရွိခဲ့သည္။ ထိုလြတ္လပ္ေရးႏွင့္အတူ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္မီး စတင္ေလာင္ကၽြမ္းလာခဲ့သည္။ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္မီး စတင္ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ရသည့္ အေၾကာင္းရင္းကို ေလ့လာၾကည့္မည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ဝါဒေရးရာ အားျပိဳင္မႈ၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားတန္းတူေရးႏွင့္ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ျပ႒န္းခြင့္ မရွိျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း […]

November 4, 2011  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

State-Level Agreement with the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army – 5th Brigade

An unofficial translation of the state-level agreement between the Karen State Peace Making Group and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army – 5th Brigade (Kalo Htoo Baw).

November 3, 2011  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤

Discrimination, Conflict and Corruption: The Ethnic States of Burma

Since achieving independence in January 1948, successive Burmese governments, elected and military dictatorships, have sought to address the complex issues involving the country’s many ethnic groups. They have sought to do this primarily through confronting […]

October 30, 2011  •  By Ethnic Nationalities Council  •  Tags: , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Burma

This is a key moment in Myanmar’s history and there are real opportunities for positive and meaningful developments to improve the human rights situation and deepen the transition to democracy. The new Government has taken a number of
steps towards these ends […]

October 13, 2011  •  By Tomas Ojea Quintana  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burma’s Covered Up War: Atrocities Against the Kachin People

At the same time as Thein Sein’s government is engaging in public relations maneuvers designed to make it appear that reform is taking place, its army is perpetrating atrocities against the Kachin people on a widespread and systematic basis. Seven months […]

October 7, 2011  •  By Kachin Women's Association Thailand  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Post Election Chronology of Armed Conflict in Burma (7 November 2010 – 3 June 2011)

NDD is researching and documenting armed conflicts occurred throughout Burma after Burma’s 2010 Elections and has produced Post Election Chronology of Armed Conflicts in Burma. The report files important incidences of fighting covering 7 November 2010 to 3 June 2011 […]

September 30, 2011  •  By Network for Democracy and Development  •  Tags: , ,  •  Read more ➤