Shan state govt pledges compensation to victims of Lashio bomb blast
The state government has offered financial assistance of 500,000 kyat (US$375) to both families of those killed.
The state government has offered financial assistance of 500,000 kyat (US$375) to both families of those killed.
A bomb explosion on Wednesday in the Shan State city of Lashio killed two bank workers and injured 11 people, the government said. Police said they were investigating but had no word on possible suspects.
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Ethnic rebels refute allegations, and say the Burmese military is “spreading lies”. KIA spokesman says the campaign is a veiled threat against the local population.
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Locals say Mangpang Militia has threatened to murder residents and forced them to consent to a gold mining operation.
One of the youths was identified as the son of a local militia official, but police say the firearm seized did not belong to his father.
The Burmese military dismissed independent and social media reports claiming the deceased were local villagers who had been abducted by the Burmese army.
Bodies were exhumed from shallow graves in a cornfield, nearly a week after they were detained by a Burmese army unit on suspicion of being rebel supporters.
An investigation into the sword attacks resulted in a tip-off that led to the arrest of dozens of suspected drug dealers and users in a jungle camp outside of Lashio.
The attacks come after a period of relative calm in the town following a crackdown on youth brawls five months ago.
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A Lashio election commission representative has denied claims that the vice-president won his Lower House seat fraudulently.
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“They fired what looked like RPGs into the hangar where helicopter gunships and other aircraft were stationed, but missed their targets.”
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After a police station comes under fire in nearly deserted Laogai, the families of officers join the thousands of people to become displaced.
Hsenwi local MP Sai Win Khine said “four Bengalis” were detained when police stopped a bus travelling from Lashio to the border town of Muse.
A court in Lashio on Tuesday handed a 26-year prison sentence to the Muslim man accused of setting a Buddhist woman on fire in Lashio last month, which led to two days of anti-Muslim rioting
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Religious riots have erupted in Shan state’s Lashio, after a Buddhist woman was allegedly ‘torched’ by a Muslim man.
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Most travelled by foot, carrying what possessions they could.
Four civilians including an ex-political prisoner and a former administrator were detained in Rakhine State on Sunday, reportedly on counter-terrorism charges, a day after three bombs rocked the state capital Sittwe.
Three bombs rocked the capital of Burma’s restive Rakhine State, Sittwe, on Saturday, police said, adding that a policeman was slightly injured and the authorities were still working to determine who was behind the bombings.
Both meetings had been scheduled as preparatory discussions to a round of national-level political dialogue due to begin next month in Langkho, southern Shan State.
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.”
The state government accuses the Shan army of contravening a state-level agreement outlining areas of control and prompting hostilities with Burmese troops.
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UN human rights envoy Yanghee Lee offered stern words for the Burmese government on Friday evening, urging it to reconsider its refusal to issue visas to a UN fact-finding mission tasked with probing alleged human rights abuses in Arakan State and elsewhere in Burma.
Soldiers from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) stand accused of abducting a man in the Hsenwi Township village of Kham Tain on Wednesday evening, releasing him only after a local abbot paid more than 2 million kyats (US$1,460) to the ethnic armed group.