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    35 Search results for "Kachin Baptist Convention"

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Amid fears of conflict in Injangyang, Kachin State govt looks to intervene

    The Kachin State government intends to begin the process of rescuing hundreds of civilians trapped in Injangyang Township by broader regional conflict, with the Burmese military blockading the road linking it to adjacent Myitkyina Township to the west.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Kachin State minister faces criticism over IDP relief response

    Criticism has emerged over remarks by Kachin State’s social affairs minister after he said the state government did not know the location of many people displaced by recent conflict, professing ignorance amid reports of hundreds trapped in the jungles surrounding Tanai Township’s Awng Lawt village.

    IDPs Kachin Lead Story News

    Military orders Kachin IDPs to leave camps despite ongoing hostilities

    Villagers displaced by conflict in Kachin State’s Hpakant Township have been ordered by the Burmese military to evacuate their makeshift camps and find lodgings with friends or relatives.

    IDPs Kachin Lead Story News

    At odds with military in Kachin, minister supports new IDP camps ‘if necessary’

    Although the Burmese military doesn’t want camps established for those recently displaced by clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army, a cabinet official for the government has insisted that camps should be set up if necessary.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Left in limbo: Kachin IDPs face monsoon season dilemma

    “Unless both sides stop fighting and allow these people to go home, [the Kachin IDPs] are facing a dire situation.”

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Shelling of village sends hundreds more fleeing in Kachin

    Clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army around a village in Kachin State have sent more than 800 people fleeing in the latest bout of fighting to affect the region.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    700 Kachin villagers flee to forest to escape fighting

    The continuing hostilities, which began on 19 January in Sumprabum township, Putao District, in northernmost Kachin State, have included numerous rounds of mortar fire and artillery.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Tatmadaw launching attacks on Kachin positions, says KIA

    Government forces have reportedly launched assaults on its positions across Kachin State, including artillery shelling near the Kachin headquarters of Laiza.

    Kachin Lead Story Military News

    Re-open investigation into schoolteachers’ murders, says Kachin church group

    A Burmese army battalion was camped nearby, and soldiers from that unit have always been suspected of involvement.

    Lead Story News

    Two Kachin pastors given lengthy prison terms for role in Muse conflict

    A Shan State court on Friday sentenced two Kachin pastors to harsh multi-year prison sentences after they were caught up in conflict in Muse Township, with the two men found guilty of all charges brought against them, including “unlawful association.”

    Education Kachin Lead Story News

    Suu Kyi pledges schooling for children from Kachin IDPs camps

    “The state counsellor told me that every child has a right to education,” said KBC’s Reverend Samson Hkalam.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Tanai’s mining evacuees need long-term solutions, say Kachin church leaders

    Church leaders in Tanai estimate that about a thousand people have sought sanctuary at churches in the town.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Workers abandon Kachin mines due to military threat

    The Burmese military air-dropped leaflets stating that anyone remaining after 15 June would be considered an associate of the outlawed KIO.

    Kachin Lead Story News Politics Suu Kyi

    Suu Kyi visits Kachin State

    A local NLD MP told DVB that her main agenda is to discuss issues relevant to negotiating a peace deal with the various ethnic groups.

    Lead Story News Politics

    Kachin pastors transferred to police, charged with unlawful association

    Two Kachin pastors detained by the Burma Army have been charged under the Unlawful Associations Act, according to the President’s Office.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Rights groups call on govt to probe case of missing Kachin pastors

    Human rights organisations have called on the government to investigate the disappearance of two Kachin pastors in northern Shan State.

    Human Rights Kachin Lead Story News

    UN envoy Lee hears of unsolved Kachin murder cases

    Yanghee Lee is on a 12-day fact-finding visit to Burma to assess developments within various human rights situations across the country.

    Aid Kachin Lead Story News

    NGOs concerned by aid restrictions in Kachin State

    “The Myanmar Tatmadaw [armed forces] consistently hinders food transportation to the most needed area in Kachin State,” says JST.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News Politics

    Displaced Kachin pin hopes on NLD

    For more than six months in 2011, Ywe Ja refused to leave her home in Burma’s Kachin State despite heavy fighting around her village.

    Kachin Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Wreaths laid in Rangoon for Kachin teachers

    A crowd of around 100 people gather at Independence Monument in Rangoon to pay their respects to the two Kachin schoolteachers who were brutally murdered.

    Aid Kachin Lead Story News

    Kachin IDP aid blocked by Burmese army

    Some 1,400 displaced villagers are sheltering in a Buddhist monastery and a church in Kansee village, but relief supplies cannot be delivered as the Burmese army has closed the roads.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Government, rights groups at odds on third anniversary of Kachin conflict

    As a now three year old conflict in northern Burma continues, rights groups are calling on an otherwise ambivalent Burmese government to put a stop to violations.

    Conflict Lead Story News

    Humanitarian crisis looms as Kachin conflict intensifies

    Kachinland News reports that the Burmese army has intensified assaults on Kachin rebel positions in Momauk Township.

    Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News Peace Process

    3,000 displaced by recent Kachin fighting

    A coalition of aid and relief groups working in Kachin State issued a statement on Monday warning that more than 3,000 civilians have been displaced by fighting in the southeast part of the state, which remains ongoing.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    More than 2,000 flee as hostilities reignite in Kachin state

    Up to 3,000 refugees from a displacement camp in Kachin state’s Mansi township have been forced to flee once again when clashes broke out nearby between Burmese government forces and the Kachin Independence Army.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Aid workers concerned over ambitious plan to close IDP camps

    The Burmese government is drawing up plans to shutter displacement camps across the country, but aid workers say food rations and sustainable security should be first on the priority list.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story News

    Over 1,000 miners ‘freed’ by Burmese army in Tanai

    Reports are emerging of food and water shortages at the mines, and accusations that Burmese soldiers forced the families to act as “human shields”.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Burmese army seizes KIA base near Tanai mines

    The capture comes after several days of armed clashes in a strategic area that is home to several gold and amber mines under KIA control.

    Aid Kachin Lead Story News

    Tanai IDPs face looming food shortages, aid workers say

    Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State’s Tanai Township will face a shortage of rations by the end of this month, aid workers say.

    Lead Story News

    Upheaval in Tanai as treasures below and message from above converge

    No one here thought that leaflets could destroy riches and their possessors’ future plans so quickly. But in Burma, leaflets are not only capable of doing that — they can lead to death.

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