Strong winds destroy hundreds of homes in Kachin IDP camps
Hundreds of war-displaced Kachin civilians are now without shelter after strong winds inflicted heavy damage to three IDP camps.
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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.
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.
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At IDP camps in Kachin, footballers and future leaders
DVB’s “Doh Pyay Doh Myay” team finds hardship and hope in a Kachin State camp for those internally displaced by conflict.
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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.
In Kachin’s IDP camps, women struggle to be heard
New research has found that in camps for the internally displaced in Kachin State, women’s needs struggle to be heard as the conflict in northern Burma enters its seventh year.
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Inside one of Kachin State’s newest IDP camps
Last month hundreds of internally displaced persons fled renewed conflict in Burma’s north. For many, they traded one IDP camp for another.
Life in Kachin’s IDP camps
Photojournalist Ryan Libre takes a look at daily life in the Kachin IDP camps in Maijayang, northern Kachin state. The children’s parents sent them to the camp to escape the[…]
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.
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.
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.”
Military urges IDPs in Tanai to return home after recent fighting
The military has announced in Kachin State’s Tanai town that civilians who abandoned their homes to avoid clashes between government troops and the Kachin Independence Army must return, saying KIA forces had retreated from the affected villages in Tanai Township.
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Police open investigation after 2 Kachins found shot in head
Ministry of Home Affairs says the bodies had “penetration wounds on the left cheek” and the backs of their heads had “exploded”.
Bodies of two Kachin IDPs unearthed; military suspected of involvement in deaths
Burmese authorities on Friday visited a suspected shallow grave in the country’s north that residents said contained the bodies of two ethnic minority men who were detained by soldiers in January, a police officer and a community leader said.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Six years on, conflict in Kachin leaves youths older, wiser – and still struggling
DVB’s Youth Voice team visits camps for the internally displaced in Kachin State to speak to young people about the particular challenges they have faced as the war raging in northern Burma entered its seventh year.
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‘All people want is to go back home’: Dispatches from the Kachin conflict
Follow DVB as we visit Kachin State some six years into the conflict there, which has displaced more than 100,000 civilians.
Tanai IDPs face pressure to relocate
With thousands of miners and their families in recent days having fled gold and amber mines in villages across Tanai Township to Tanai town, in northern Kachin State, the military has told leaders at the camps for the internally displaced that the temporary settlements should be moved elsewhere.
IDPs, civil society meet state counsellor on Kachin trip
During a brief trip to conflict-wracked Kachin State on Tuesday, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi visited displacement camps and, in a lighter moment, posed for photos with a pair of nonagenarians who similarly smiled for the camera with Suu Kyi’s father more than a half-century ago.
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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.
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Suu Kyi’s office donates to Kachin IDPs in rare nod to conflict
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has acknowledged, albeit somewhat obliquely, the deteriorating security environment in Kachin State, with the office of Burma’s de facto leader donating 300 million kyats ($222,000) to those displaced by conflict.
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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.
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UN special rapporteur denied visits to Kachin State conflict sites
Yanghee Lee was denied access to conflict-wracked Hpakant and Waignmaw townships in Kachin State this week as she undertakes her fifth visit to Burma in her capacity as UN special rapporteur on the country’s human rights situation.
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Kachin IDPs’ woes grow with fall of KIA’s Gidon outpost
A recent offensive by the Burmese military in Kachin State, seizing the Kachin Independence Army’s Gidon mountain outpost, has exacerbated the dire conditions for displaced people living in the area as northern Burma enters its coldest stretch of the year.
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.
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IDP injured by landmine in Hpakant
According to an international watchdog, Burma is the third-worst country in the world for landmine casualties.
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Kachin exiles call for continued sanctions
Kachin exile groups say US sanctions on the Burmese military should stay in place until the conflict in Kachin State is resolved.
As aid dwindles, Kachin IDPs wait for peace
Some 40,000 displaced Kachins have now spent five years in camps in remote, KIA-controlled mountains, where humanitarian aid deliveries have dwindled.
