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Burma Army’s actions in Karen State threaten to expand fighting, endangering peace process and displaced people’s return
YANGON, MYANMAR (Sept. 29, 2016) — A continued Burma military offensive into the contested Hat Gyi dam area threatens to ignite fighting with the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and imperils a 4-year-old ceasefire, says Karen Rivers Watch […]
• • •Legal Analysis Statement on current armed conflict in Karen State from the perspective of human rights and the rule of law vis-a-vis the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement
Since the second week of September 2016, fighting has resumed between the DKBA and Burmese Army and its subsidiary Karen Border Guard Force. This can erode the trust of ethnic nationalities in the government and Burmese military leaders who are taking the leading role in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) process […]
• • •Burma Army and Proxy Army Send IDP’s Running in Hpa-An district, Karen State
4,000 ethnic Karen were sent running from their homes by a sudden surge in violence in the Karen State […]
• • •တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးထားၾကသည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ ထိပ္သီးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအစည္းအေ၀း – ပထမအႀကိမ္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္
၁။ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ (NCA) ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးထားၾက သည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖ႔ြဲအစည္း (EAO) (၈)ဖြဲ႔၏ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔ တစ္ဖြ႔ဲလွ်င္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၃) ဦး၊ ေလ့လာသူ (၂) ဦး၊ EAO ပစ္ခတ္တိုက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးဆိုင္ရာ ပူးတြဲေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရးေကာ္မတီ (EAO JMC) မွ (၃) ဦး၊ EAO ျပည္ေထာင္စုၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးမႈ ပူးတြဲေကာ္မတီ (EAO UPDJC) မွ (၁) ဦး ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖ႔ြဲအစည္းမ်ား ညိႇႏိႈင္းေရးအဖြဲ႔ (EAO CT) မွ (၈) ဦး အပါအဝင္ စုစုေပါင္း (၈၇) ဦး တက္ေရာက္ေသာ “တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖ႔ြဲအစည္းမ်ား၏ ထိပ္သီးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအစည္း အေ၀း – ပထမအႀကိမ္”ကုိ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္၊ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာလ (၈) ရက္ေန႔မွ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔အထိ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ၊ ဇင္းမယ္ၿမိဳ႕၌ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ က်င္းပၿပီးစီးခဲ့ပါသည္ […]
• • •Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui, Concludes Her First Visit to Myanmar
The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui, concluded a five-day visit to Myanmar today. Her first visit to the country, at the invitation of the Government, aimed to assess the impact of the conflict on children in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolution 1612, focusing in particular on the implementation of the Joint Action Plan (JAP) signed in 2012 by the Government and the Country Task Force on Monitoring and Reporting (CTFMR) to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children by the armed forces of Myanmar (Tatmadaw). The SRSG visited Nay Pyi Taw, Yangon, Mandalay and Myitkyina (Kachin state) […]
• • •Asian Highway Project Undermines Peace in Karen State
(10 July 2015) – The Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN) is alarmed by recent fighting between the Burma Army and the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA) along the recently completed section of the Asian Highway between Myawaddy and Kawkareik. The Burma Army began heavy fire on DKBA positions along the road in the early morning of 2 July. Fighting has lasted for one week, has spread to other parts of Karen State, and tensions remain high. This is the fourth instance of armed clashes in the area in the past year, breaking out amidst rising tensions over control of the highway, which is slated to officially open later this month […]
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