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Child soldiers release in 2013. Photo: Khine Zar Mon/UNICEF Myanmar
September 9, 2016
800 children and young people released since 2012
The Tatmadaw today released 55 children and young people as a result of coordinated efforts with the United Nations to implement the 2012 Joint...
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Meeting of the Advisory Commission on Rakhine State
September 9, 2016
Arakan CSOs Prevented from Talking to Kofi Annan
A local elder criticised the Arakan State Authorities for preventing Arakan civil society organisations (CSOs) from holding discussions with the...
Karen Information Center
EAO Leaders at the Union Peace Conference
September 9, 2016
Genuine Ethnic Views Expressed at Union Peace Conference
Ethnic armed organisation (EAO) leaders who attended the first Union Peace Conference (the 21st Century Panglong Conference) believe that the genuine...
Kachin News Group
September 8, 2016
Burma Army Seizes Medicines Meant for IDPs
The Burma Army stopped a Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) vehicle transporting medicine to internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Eastern Kachin...
Karen Information Center
KNU Meeting About Union Peace Conference
September 8, 2016
KNU Hold Meeting About Union Peace Conference
After attending the Union Peace Conference (the 21st Century Panglong Conference) from 31 August to 3 September KNU members met with local youths,...
Karen Information Center
September 8, 2016
Karen State Fighting Escalates
Armed clashes broke out in Karen State between splinter Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) forces and government backed militia.
Karen Information Center
September 8, 2016
Ethnic Leader Says Now Is Not The Time to Lay Down Arms
Ethnic leaders have warned that now is not the time to give up arms, in reaction to a speech calling for disarmament by the Burmese Commander-in-...
September 8, 2016
DEMAND OF NEW NATIONAL STATES: A challenge that is unavoidab...
One controversial and visible challenge coming out of the recently finished 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC) is the demand for the status of...
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Lawyer U Robert Sann Aung in his Yangon home. Photo: Mizzima
September 8, 2016
Lawyers stress ‘staying safe’ online
Although just 12 percent of the population of Myanmar has access to the Internet, online speech is becoming an increasingly important theme in...
Independent Mon News Agency
Front Row of Delegates at the Union Peace Conference on 3 September
September 7, 2016
UNFC to Continue with Tripartite NCA Discussions
The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), a coalition of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs), will continue with tripartite negotiations in an...
September 7, 2016
STATE COUNSELLOR’S FOREIGN POLICY BLUNDER: Tibet, Xinjiang a...
Generally, the China-Myanmar Joint Press Release or Statement of 20 August 2016 is seen as a diplomatic procedure normally issued after the end of a...
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Rakhine ethnic people repair a road at the Rakhine ethnic Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Min Gan quarter, Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 25 August 2016. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
September 7, 2016
NGO alarmed by food ration reductions in Rakhine IDP camps
The Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) says it is concerned about cuts to IDP food aid by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in parts of...