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Posts Tagged ‘Military Engagement’ (63 found)

SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN MYANMAR: Why the U.S. Should Maintain Existing Sanctions Authority

Fortify RightsIs now the time for the U.S. Government to drop all sanctions on Myanmar (also known as Burma)? A network of corporate lobbyists and business associations are seeking to convince the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to lift all remaining sanctions on the country by letting the existing sanctions authority expire this month […]

May 9, 2016  •  By Fortify Rights and United to End Genocide  •  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

FBR Report: Burma Army Launches Attacks Across Kachin State

The Burma Army is currently launching small scale attacks across different areas of Kachin and Shan states. They have killed and wounded several villagers, including ​wounding ​a 7-year-old girl and ​killing a 60 year-old woman, and displaced thousands in an attempt to gain total control over the region […]

April 29, 2016  •  By Free Burma Rangers  •  Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Hundreds Displaced as Conflict Rages in Myanmar’s Rakhine State

SITTWE, Myanmar – A delegation of members of Parliament in Myanmar visited the country’s western Rakhine State on Wednesday amid tightened security after hundreds of residents were displaced by armed conflict that has raged since mid-April between the Myanmar Army and the Arakan Army guerillas […]

April 28, 2016  •  By Latin America Herald Tribune  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

Burma Army expansion, abuses along Kokang-China border creating scores of “ghost villages”

Burma Army expansion and ongoing abuses since last year in mountainous areas along the Kokang-China border is making it impossible for tens of thousands of Kokang refugees to return home, according to interviews carried out by SHRF in March 2016 […]

April 21, 2016  •  By Shan Human Rights Foundation  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဒီမုိကရက္တစ္အင္အားစု၏ ႏွစ္သစ္မဂၤလာႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္ ႏွင့္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆုိင္ရာ အဆုိျပဳခ်က္

၁။ ျမန္မာတုိ႔၏ ႏွစ္သစ္ကူးအခါသမယတြင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္းမွီတင္းေနထုိင္ၾကေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံႏွင့္ အေၾကာင္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေၾကာင့္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာတြင္ ေရာက္ရွိေနၾကေသာ ႏိုင္ငံသူႏုိင္ငံသားအားလုံး ကုိယ္စိတ္ႏွစ္ျဖာက်န္းမာခ်မ္းသာၾကပါေစေၾကာင္း ဆုေတာင္းေမတၲမ်ား ပုိ႔သလုိက္ပါသည္ […]

April 17, 2016  •  By Forum for Democracy in Burma  •  Tags: , , , , ,  •  Read more ➤

PSLF Letter to International Community

The Palaung State Liberation Front (PSLF) urgently requests the international community to assist with the protection of civilians in Northern Shan State […]

March 31, 2016  •  By Palaung State Liberation Front  •  Tags: , , , ,  •  Read more ➤