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The launch of a Karen rights organisation’s report has been blocked in Chiang Mai, Thailand, after authorities pressured a local university to cancel the event.
Joining a rising chorus of voices objecting to the encroachment of Burma Army troops into territory in Karen State, hundreds of villagers in the state’s Hpapun Township staged a protest on Monday, calling on the military to withdraw its forces.
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A clash between soldiers from the New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Battalion 16 of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) reportedly erupted over the weekend near Mahn Aung village in Ye Township, Mon State. The skirmish flared eight miles away from the village.
Ethnic bloc says “Nation of a Federal Democratic Union”; Tatmadaw insists on “Nation of Democratic and Federal Union”.
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After decades on the run from armed conflict in their ancestral lands, Burmese nationals with Karen heritage are finally getting a taste of peace as they settle into newly built houses in the country’s southeast.
The Karen National Union kicked off its 16th Congress in Karen State on Tuesday, with the influential ethnic armed group set to appoint a revamped leadership.
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The eight militias, including the KNU, said that they strongly object to any attempt to label the Northern Alliance as terrorists.
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Karen Rivers Watch says recent fighting for control of a road to the site of the controversial Hatgyi hydropower dam is putting a dangerous strain on the ceasefire in Karen State.
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In his opening speech at today’s event, KNU Chairman Gen. Mutu Say Poe said that all the ethnic armed groups share one vision – building a federal union that can guarantee genuine peace.
Crime Lead Story News Refugees
Four refugees from a camp on the Thai-Burma border have been arrested on charges of murdering a policeman.
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Burma today discharged 53 underage recruits from its armed forces, but several observers urged a more concrete approach and an end to the practise.
The remaining ethnic armed groups who are signatories to tomorrow’s ceasefire accord are removed from list of ‘unlawful associations and terrorist groups’.
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The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) has announced its intention to sign a nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) with the Burmese government.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Peace Process Politics
Eight armed groups have now agreed to sign the NCA with the Burmese government, with 15 October set as the date the historic agreement will be inked.
Ethnic issues Lead Story News Peace Process Politics
A two-year effort to arrive at a nationwide ceasefire has been ended by the government’s unwillingness to include all warring parties, say ethnic groups.
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With good reason, ethnic delegates view Burma’s authorities as locked in an internally colonial mindset vis-à-vis minorities, says analyst Maung Zarni.
A disputed stretch of Asian Highway 1 reopened on Friday, according to the Border Guard Force, after fighting settled between the DKBA and government troops.
Police have arrested and charged around two dozen people for squatting in a protected forest in Karen State.
The latest release of 51 underage recruits has been commended internationally as a positive step forwards in the eradication of child soldiers worldwide.
A Buddhist monk is among six men to have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for the killing of a Buddhist abbot in Karen State last year.
Lead Story Military News Pegu Division
Terrified locals in Taungoo must have thought it was WWII all over again when the Burmese army carried out testing of air-to-ground missiles.
Police say that a second lieutenant was among the five who have been arrested in connection with an alleged armed robbery in Irrawaddy Division.
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KNU Chairman Mutu Say Poe pledges support for the peace process, while calling for all sides to desist from hostilities.
Two KNLA members were shot dead when they happened upon a gang of dacoits robbing a public bus on the highway between Tavoy and Rangoon.
The Pa-Oh National Liberation Army (PNLA) pledged to protect children from the effects of armed conflict by signing a “Deed of Commitment” on 17 November.
KNU and DKBA members wrapped up a meeting on Thursday by releasing a joint statement announcing support for the formation of the Kawthoolei Armed Forces (KAF).
Ethnic issues Karen Lead Story News Peace Process
A statement purporting to be jointly signed by all the major Karen armed groups claims they have agreed to reunify forces in the face of intimidation and attacks by the Burmese army.
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Two civilians were injured on Sunday when a passenger bus was hit by shrapnel from an explosive device in Myaing Gyi Ngu Village near the Karen State capital of Hpa-an.
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The body of a soldier from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) has been found, handcuffed and badly mutilated, in the eastern Burmese border town of Myawaddy
The ninth session of the Karen State parliament drew to a close on Thursday with the passage of two new laws, according to Karen State Transport Minister Saw Khin Maung Myint.
