တစ္ႏုိင္ငံလံုးပစ္ခတ္တုိက္ခိုက္မႈရပ္စဲေရးသေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ကို လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးသည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၏ သေဘာထားထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္

၁။ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၁၈) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္မွ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးရန္ ဖိတ္ေခၚခဲ့သည့္အခ်ိန္မွစ၍ မိမိတို႔ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ားသည္ ျပည္နယ္အဆင့္၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအဆင့္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးစာခ်ဳပ္ (Bilateral Agreement) မ်ားကို ႏွစ္ဖက္လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးႏိုင္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္ […]

Karen National Liberation Army Position with Regard to Ceasefire

The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) is a Karen national revolutionary resistance army formed by the Karen National Union (KNU) for the liberation and defense of the Karen people. With regard to ceasefire, we the KNLA have laid down our position based on our long standing principles, as follows […]

Statement of KNLA on signing of the NCA by the KNU

ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ (KNLA) သည္ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးႏွင့္ကာကြယ္ ေရးအတြက္ KNU ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားအစည္းအရုံးမွဖဲြ႔စည္းသည့္ ကရင့္အမ်ိဳးသားေတာ္လွန္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္တစ္ရပ္ျဖစ္သည္။ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍မိမိတို႔တပ္မေတာ္မွ ေအာက္ပါရပ္တည္ခ်က္မႈမ်ားကုိ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့သည္ […]

Fighting between Tatmadaw and KNLA soldiers leads to violent abuse and displacement of villagers in Bu Tho Township, Hpapun District, October 2015

This News Bulletin describes three separate incidents of fighting that occurred on September 30th 2015, between Tatmadaw and Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) soldiers in Day Wah and Kyaw Pah village tracts, Bu Tho Township, Hpapun District. This includes arbitrary arrest and detention, violent abuse of a villager, restrictions on the freedom of movement, and displacement of villagers […]

Kawthoolei Armed Forces Disagrees about the NCA Signing

KAF disagrees with the 3 Karen groups, KNU, DKBA, and KNU/KNLA PC as representing ALL Karen when signing the NCA with the Burmese with their intent to destroy historical evidence of our freedom. Also, misleading and creating confusion among all the Ethnics against their wishes of their own freedom, for the following reasons […]

Human rights violations by Second Lieutenant Tha Beh of BGF Battalion #1014 in Hpapun District, between 2012 and 2015

This News Bulletin describes forced labour, violent abuse, threats, arbitrary taxation and demands, and fighting committed by Second Lieutenant Tha Beh of Border Guard Force (BGF) Battalion #1014 between 2012 and 2015. Second Lieutenant Tha Beh has committed numerous human rights violations in the regions under his influence, such as A—, B—, and C— areas, in Pa Zwun Myaung village tract, Bu Tho Township, Hpapun District. On January 13th 2014, Second Lieutenant Tha Beh violently abused a villager from G— village, Bu Tho Township for logging without paying him a tax, resulting in the villager’s arm being broken. Second Lieutenant Tha Beh also fined the villager 300,000 kyat (US $257.07) after the abuse […]

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) […]

Home Guards Attacked by Tatmadaw in Lu Thaw Township, Hpapun District

This News Bulletin describes a recent attack that occurred in Lu Thaw Township, Hpapun District in February 2015 by Tatmadaw soldiers against six home guards […]

Legal Memorandum: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in Eastern Myanmar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

In January 2011, the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic (“the Clinic”) began to investigate the actions of the Myanmar Army during a military offensive in eastern Myanmar (“the Offensive”) that began in late 2005 and lasted approximately three years. The Clinic sought to determine whether violations of international criminal law occurred during the Offensive, and whether there exist reasonable grounds to assert that individual military officers could be held responsible for those crimes. The Clinic’s investigation focused specifically on the conduct of two military units—Southern Regional Military Command (“Southern Command”) and Light Infantry Division 66 (“LID 66”)—in Thandaung Township, Kayin State. […]

New Report Documents Recent Violent Conflict in Karen State

New Report Documents Recent Violent Conflict in Karen State
More than 2,000 villagers were displaced in October as fighting resumed in Karen State, the site of the world’s longest-running civil war. A report released today by Karen Rivers Watch (KRW) reveals that the outbreak of fighting – after two years of ceasefire negotiations […]