Rights group urges demilitarisation of former conflict zones
A human rights group in Karen State is calling for the demilitarisation of former conflict areas to ensure that Burma’s ongoing peace process is “stable and long lasting”.
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Ethnic issues Lead Story News Women's Issues
Women face new challenges as conflict cools, report finds
After decades of conflict, women in former war zones along Burma’s borders continue to struggle with unequal treatment, a new report finds.
Human Rights Koh Tao Lead Story Migrants Issues News
The origins of Burmese migrant worker misery
While correctly demanding that Thailand end its rights abuses against migrants, the incoming NLD government also needs address the structural inequalities and abuses that have driven people from Burma to work and live outside their country.
Development Karen Lead Story News Video
DOCUMENTARY: ‘With only our voices, what can we do?’
Watch as KHRG takes you into rural southeastern Burma, where forced land confiscation and environmental destruction is taking place under the backdrop of an increasing Burmese military presence.
Development Land Lead Story News
NGOs say ethnic areas have no ‘virgin lands’
A coalition of ethnic NGOs says the draft National Land Use Policy is flawed because it overlooks traditional shifting agricultural practices in Burma.
Drugs Ethnic issues Lead Story News Video
Karen armed groups united to combat illicit drugs
Leaders from six Karen armed groups have formed a task force in order to combat drug production and use in the east Burmese state.
Analysis Karen Lead Story News Peace Process
Perceiving the peace in Karen State
As peace talks press forward in Karen State, one village is hopeful for the best, but bracing for the worst.
The futile and violent search for ‘authenticity’ in Burma
Growing anxiety over resource distribution in a changing Burma can help explain sectarian violence
Burma must take steps to quell ethnic violence
In the wake of unspeakable violence carried out in a methodical manner by civilians with the acquiescence of local police, there must be a strong and swift response within Burma
Rights-claiming in a rule of law vacuum
In the absence of widely accessible formal complaints mechanisms, protests are cropping up and breaking the silence surrounding long-established projects
Ceasefire deal fuels land grabs in Karen state: report
Land grabs have intensified in eastern Burma after a ceasefire between Karen ethnic minority rebels and the army paved the way for developers to enter the resource-rich area
Abuses ‘could accompany’ Burma reforms: UN
UN rights expert Tomas Quintana says concerns persist over legal weaknesses and potential for investment to induce rights abuses
Attacks continue despite Karen ceasefire
Burmese troops shell a camp for internally displaced persons, while sporadic clashes break out between Karen and Burmese army
Away from the Burma fanfare, a harsh reality persists
A myopic focus on ‘political’ progress obscures the fact that for millions in Burma’s borderlands, nothing has changed since the 2010 elections. Direct testimony from rural communities is the only way to gauge this reality
‘No progress since 2010 elections’: report
Karen group says rosy assessments of Burma done without hearing the painful stories of civilians in rural areas whose suffering continues
‘Yellow rain’ fuels chemical weapons fears
Several reports from civilian areas in Kachin state claim a yellow substance that fell from the sky caused burn holes through vegetation
S Africa probes Burma diplomat’s history
Opposition calls on President Zuma to revoke accreditation of Myint Naung, who is believed to be implicated in deaths of civilians
Rights groups condemn ‘war crime’ use of convict porters
Rights groups claim the Burmese military is using convicts as porters in war zones, in what they allege amount to ‘war crimes’, as election promises on human rights seemingly ignored
Shan upheaval as gas attack fears spread
Locals in southern Shan state told to leave homes as impending assault is accompanied by rumours of chemical weapons
Fears mount over chemical weapons use
Shelling of Shan army base leaves soldiers vomiting and struggling to breathe as speculation of chemical weapons use mounts
Conflict worsening Karen food crisis
Nearly 9000 people in northern Karen state facing major food shortage as a result of abnormal weather and Burmese army attacks
Karen hospital hit by artillery fire
Three shells land in Kawkareit town as human rights groups warns that military operations are creating a severe food shortage in Karen state
Refugees fearful of Thai warning
Tak governor’s comments that Thailand has ditched a refugee screening process and that they may have to return is met with anger
FIFA chief dogged by controversy
Sepp Blatter meets Thein Sein and gives funding to Myanmar Football Federation, whose chairman Zaw Zaw is subject to US and EU sanctions
Refugees treated like ‘ping pong balls’
Rights group says Thai authorities are ‘reluctantly’ allowing Karen refugees in as fighting at the weekend sparks another exodus
Thai army ‘obstructing refugees’
Aid groups warn that fighting continues in eastern Burma and refugees continue to move back and forth across the border
Border flare-up sparks refugee turmoil
Latest eruption of fighting between Burmese troops and the DKBA comes after weeks of heavy-handed tactics against civilians
‘27,000 displaced’ in Karen township
Lu Thaw township in northern Karen state hit by relentless military attacks for two decades and report says is one of the worst cases in eastern Burma
Deported Karen boy killed by grenade
Five-year-old killed and older brother ‘critical’ as Thai refugee camps empty despite warnings that conditions in eastern Burma remain dangerous
Landmine death in Karen ‘safe zone’
Feb 11, 2010 (DVB)-A man has been killed after stepping on a landmine in an area of Burma’s eastern Karen state flogged to foreign observers last week as a ‘safe[…]
