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January 8, 2019
Increased Displacement Caused By Fighting Between Rival Groups
UN says rival fighting in northern Shan State to blame for increase of displaced civilians. Fighting between armed groups in Myanmar’s restive...
December 31, 2018
No Plans to Fix Dam In Eastern Shan State
Residents left hanging while the government decides if it will repair a dam that provides their drinking water. Lon Sai Long, a Shan Nationalities...
December 31, 2018
Displaced Civilians Shelter in Monasteries
Fighting in Shan State displaces hundreds of villagers. Over 300 villagers were forced to flee their homes after fighting between Shan armed groups...
December 31, 2018
Landmine Explosion Injures Farmer
Landmines claim new victims in northern Shan State. A woman was rushed to the hospital after stepping on a landmine while picking tea leaves in...
December 29, 2018
Farmers Meet With Government Officials
Farmers meet with government officials to hammer out issues over land tenure. In the first meeting of its kind, farmers from southern Shan State...
December 29, 2018
Pa’O Civilians Killed by Shan Soldiers
The killing of ethnic Pa’O civilians by Shan soldiers spurs a community to seek justice. Thousands of Pa’O, an ethnic group in Myanmar, protested in...
December 29, 2018
Coal Mining Company’s License Renewed
Coal extraction company gets the green light to operate in Shan State next year despite polluting the air, land and water for nearly two decades. A...
December 24, 2018
TATMADAW’S PEACE OVERTURES: Tactical military move or an offer of real...
The statement from the Tatmadaw comes after three ethnic armed groups that had previously been frozen out of the peace process – the Myanmar National...
Op-ed
December 14, 2018
Myanmar’s Ethnic Armed Conflict in 2018: Unabated protracted war and...
As the year ends, protracted ethnic conflict has expanded into the Rakhine State. The Arakan Army (AA), a new outfit that was formed only in 2009,...
Features
December 13, 2018
Dam-building in Shan State: Militarization and subjugation the main...
On December 5, Shan communities and local Members of Parliaments held a press conference in Yangon, City Hotel, to call for an immediate cancellation...
Analysis
November 30, 2018
A Brief Commentary on Burma’s/Myanmar’s Civil War
Foreword Burma, a name of the country which has been used in the English language, is also known as Myanmar, after the military junta, the State Law...
Analysis
November 27, 2018
Inter-ethnic conflict in Shan State creates a cold war-like animosity
As if the problem in Rakhine State, that has provoked international and UN condemnation on Naypyitaw and ever since the Rohingya’s exodus of some 700...