Rights report highlights Burma ethnic abuses

Published: 22/01/2012 at 08:32 PMOnline news: AsiaBurma's army raped, tortured and killed civilians in ethnic minority conflict zones last year, Human Rights Watch said Sunday, despite the government's recent political reforms.Soldiers from the United Wa State Army patrol the streets of Nandeng in the Wa region of Myanmar in 2009. Myanmar's army raped, tortured and killed civilians in ethnic minority conflict zones last year, Human Rights Watch has...[Readmore]

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HOPIN KAW MYEN HPYEN DU MARE MASHA GAP SAT January (22) Laban,Jinghpaw Mung Htingnai Ginwang, Hopin mare Wanleng daru makau na lu sha seng kaw myen hpyen du langai kawn mare masha langai hpe January (20) shana hkying (10:30pm) ten sinat gadun hte gap sat kau lai wa sai lam na chye lu ai. Hopin Thida lawk na Zaw Zaw Aung hpe hka-la-ya (388) dap na hpyen du Soe Aung Htet kawn lahtan kaw nan sinat hte gap ya ai re lam shiga na chye lu ai. One...[Readmore]

THE PANGLONG AGREEMENT, 1947

Text of the Agreement signed at Panglong on the 12th February, 1947 by Shan, Kachin and Chin leaders, and by representatives of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma--------------------------------------------------------------A conference having been held at Panglong, attended by certain Members of the Executive Council of the Governor of Burma, all Saohpas and representatives of the Shan States, the Kachin Hills and the Chin Hills, the...[Readmore]

We Are One In Our Struggle For Freedom ( kachinland.com )

The common goal of ethnic armed struggle is to achieve the autonomy from the burman regime. The blood, sweat and tears we have been shedding over 60 years are not for the economic opportunities but for the cause of the freedom. If we get derailed from the track before reaching our goal, the sacrifices our fore father, comrade and friends have been making will be in vain. Since we have been ignored and marginalized by Burman regime from mainstream...[Readmore]

Thein Sein's orders for Burma army to halt Kachin offensive are worthless

Burma's armed forces continued today to attack positions held by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Kachin and northern Shan state, this despite claims from President Thein Sein's government that an order has again been re-issued commanding a halt to the army's Kachin offensive.Fighting between government forces and the Kachin resistance was particularly fierce today in an area of northern Shan state slated to be the route of the Burma to China...[Readmore]

Update on Burmese army killing of Chinese civilian in Yunnan

[IMG]/images/stories/Person/lahpai-zau-lawn-loilung.jpg[/IMG]Body of Lahpai Zau Lawn, who was brutally killed on Jan. 12 by Burmese soldiers of LIB No. 321.On Thursday January 12 soldiers from the Burmese army stationed along the border with China, shot and killed a Chinese civilian despite the fact that he was on the Yunnan side of the Sino-Burmese border, according to the man's relatives and eyewitnesses from the man's village, Loi Lung Bum. An...[Readmore]

Update on conflict in Kachin state Burma

www.youtube.comAn interview with Shirley Seng of the Kachin Women's Association of Thailand about the latest conflict and human rights abuses in Kachin areas of Bu...[Readmore]

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