Human Rights Lead Story News Shan
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) denies recent allegations of extrajudicial killing and mass abduction of local villagers in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme district.
An intense firefight broke out between Burmese government forces and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) in Kyaukme, northern Shan State, on Sunday. Farmland in the surrounding villages was damaged but no casualties were reported.
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Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News
Fighting between the Restoration Council of Shan State and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army flared once again this week in Kyaukme Township, Shan State, with a shelling from the clashes landing in a local village and killing two civilians.
The 324 villagers are now being sheltered at a Buddhist monastery in Man San village near Namtu town.
Clashes between the Tatmadaw and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) erupted in several remote villages of Kutkai Township, Shan State, in recent days, sending possibly hundreds of locals fleeing to Kutkai town and the neighbouring township to the south, Hseni.
Ethnic bloc says “Nation of a Federal Democratic Union”; Tatmadaw insists on “Nation of Democratic and Federal Union”.
The state government accuses the Shan army of contravening a state-level agreement outlining areas of control and prompting hostilities with Burmese troops.
Drugs Features Lead Story News Women's Issues
Most state-run drug rehabilitation centres in Burma accept men only.
Clashes between Tatmadaw troops and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) flared in three northern Shan State townships on Wednesday, the ethnic armed group has announced.
The formal withdrawal of charges in the high-profile “unlawful association” case involving three journalists and three others in Shan State’s Hsipaw Township was postponed on Monday, with the legal bureaucracy delaying their official exoneration for another several days.
Burmese government forces, Kachin, Shan and Palaung rebels all involved in armed clashes this week.
Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News Shan
A spokesman for the Ta’ang National Liberation Army says his people are ready to hold talks aimed at ending their ongoing conflict with the Restoration Council of Shan State.
Clashes between the Restoration Council of Shan State and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army flared once again over the weekend in Shan State, according to a statement from the latter.
Conflict Lead Story News Ta'ang
Aik Non and Aik Ki were abducted by the TNLA in March for alleged connections to rival ethnic armed group RCSS/SSA.
Fighting broke out on Sunday between the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and government troops along a road linking the villages of Pansan and Pankyan, near the town of Kyaukme in northern Shan State.
Two local villagers were killed on Tuesday when an artillery shell landed on their home amid clashes between Burmese government forces and ethnic fighters in northern Shan State’s Kutkai Township.
The Ta’ang National Liberation Army has been accused of torture and the extrajudicial killing of a local villager in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme district last week.
A high school, a government office and a sawmill were hit by stray bullets when TNLA clashed with Burmese troops.
Conflict Lead Story News Ta'ang
Three locals were reportedly killed and at least six more were injured on Monday amid clashes between the Burmese Army and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme township.
Relief workers say that these internally displaced persons are urgently in need of blankets and warm clothing as the cold season sets in.
Conflict Ethnic issues Lead Story News
One civilian was killed on Tuesday and hundreds more were displaced in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme district as fighting broke out between the Shan State Army-South, a nationwide ceasefire agreement signatory group, and the non-signatory Ta’ang National Liberation Army.
Conflict Lead Story News Ta'ang
The 11 were freed after each had vowed to have no affiliation with the Shan State Army- South.
The Burmese military is “on a path to annihilate the ethnic rebels,” instead of looking for a peaceful solution, say coalition.
The market in the northern Shan State town of Namlan was devastated by fire on Sunday.
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Ethnic issues Lead Story News Shan
Kyaukme has been for many years a peaceful town, its ethnic Shan and Ta’ang residents co-existing in relative harmony. But armed conflict is threatening to tear the communities apart.
Ta’ang community leaders argue that the Ta’ang need their own state if they are to enjoy equal status in a future federal Burma.
“They claimed that three or four villagers from Wanmai were abducted by the Palaung armed group [TNLA] and yet to return.”
A landmine blast in northern Shan State’s Kyaukme District killed one person and injured seven others, local sources said on Thursday.
