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February 21, 2014
| KIC
Thai Burma border based Karen groups meet to discuss broad collaboration on a diverse set of issues, including emergency response and how to best...
February 20, 2014
| KIC
The Geba ethnic group currently incorrectly classified as a Karenni ethnic sub-group by the government has called on the government and relevant...
February 19, 2014
| KIC
The Burma government and a Thai company have agreed to pay compensation to farmers for damaging or taking their land while building the Asian Highway...
February 18, 2014
| KIC
Karen leaders have gotten together to discuss the classification of the Karen people in the upcoming national census.
February 17, 2014
| KIC
The Karen National Union’s (KNU) Vice-Chairperson, Padoh Naw Zipporah Sein, urged Karen people to recall the four founding objectives of their...
February 14, 2014
| KIC
Landowners in Hpa-an Township are frustrated that they have to pay yearly rent to use lands that once belonged to them, but were confiscated by the...
February 13, 2014
| KIC
The building of shelters to replace those destroyed by a fire last week in Umpeim Mai Refugee Camp, Tak Province, is being delayed by a lack of...
February 13, 2014
| KIC
The conflict, which has lasted for more than two years, has seen the displacement of an estimated 80,000 Kachin people and reports of human rights...
February 12, 2014
| KIC
Even as Burma opens up to the world under President Thein Sein’s nominally civilian government, serious human rights abuses continue to occur,...
February 12, 2014
| KIC
A line of soldiers adorned in flowered garlands threaded their way across the Karen National Defence Organisation’s parade ground in Karen State.
February 12, 2014
| KIC
A number of international human rights groups and media watchdog organisations condemned the Burma government for jailing five journalists for...
February 11, 2014
| KIC
Three soldiers from Burma Army Light Infantry Battalion 549 held seven Karen villagers hostage, demanding cash for their return, claims Free Burma...
February 7, 2014
| KIC
General Ner Dah Mya, head of the Karen National Defence Organisation (KNDO) has called for Burma’s government to “show sincerity” and commit to a ‘...
February 6, 2014
| KIC
The General Secretary of the Karen National Union, P’Doh Saw Kwe Htoo Win, called for Karen unity at a ceremony marking the 65th Karen Revolution Day...
February 5, 2014
| IMNA
Writting by Pon Nya Mon – Over the past couple years many scholars, activists, and politicians have been debating on whether or not to allow the...