Kachin teachers: church and govt investigate
A month on from the killings, investigations into the deaths of the Kachin schoolteachers appear to be drawing to a close.
Category: Kachin
Army denies murder of Kachin teachers
The Burmese army have issued denials of involvement and threatened legal action for libel in the Kachin schoolteacher case.
Two injured in Hpakant bombing
A bomb explodes outside a hotel in Hpakant in Kachin State, injuring a father and his daughter on a moped.
Kachin teachers: NLD hold nationwide vigils
Vigils are held in thirteen towns across the country as the NLD make a statement on the brutal killing of the two Kachin women last week.
Kachin Lead Story News Women's Issues
Kachin teachers: chronology of an unsolved murder
Kachinland News offers a timeline of events leading to the murders, and possibly rapes, of Maran Lu Ra and Tangbau Hkawn Nan Tsin.
Kachin Lead Story News Women's Issues
Thousands turn out for Kachin schoolteachers’ funeral
After a two-day funeral procession in the area, the bodies of the two young women murdered in Muse arrive in Myitkyina for burial.
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.
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.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story News
Captured policemen handed over by KIA
Policemen, whose detention by the KIA sparked renewed violence between the armed group and government forces, are released to mediators.
Ethnic issues Kachin Lead Story News
Kachins negotiate release of policemen
Goverment-KIA negotiators head to Hpakant to secure release of detainees, held since 14 January.
Four injured in Hpakant grenade attack
Lawng Hkang police station chief said four people, all family members of police officers, were injured when unknown assailants on a motorbike hurled a hand grenade into the station’s compound.
Culture Kachin Lead Story News
Questioning this year’s Manau Festival
The Kachin public opposed the plan as they felt it was inappropriate to dance the celebratory Manau in the midst of an ongoing war, while thousands of IDPs continue to languish in camps.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story News
Clashes in Hpakant after KIA arrests state minister
Fierce clashes break out between government forces and KIA after the state minister for transport is briefly detained by KIA troops.
Human Rights Kachin Lead Story News
Army major finally appears for Brang Shawng trial
After much delay, Burmese army major who brought a charge of false accusation against the father of a 14-year-old-girl, killed in 2012, continues.
DVB Roadshow: Kachin ghost villages
The DPDM team travels through war-torn Kachin State, where abandoned homes line the highways.
Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News
Two dead, many missing in Hpakant mine landslide
At least two people are dead and many more are still missing after a giant mound of soil collapsed in the Hpakant jade mines in Kachin State on Tuesday evening.
Ethnic issues Kachin Lead Story News
88 Gen delegates meet Myitsone villagers
88 Gen delegates and the KIO meet in Myitkyina, and indications suggest that the Myitsone mega-dam featured prominently in their talks.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story News
Burmese army captures KIA outpost near Hpakant
Burmese government forces have captured a Kachin rebel outpost in Kar Mine, near the jade mining town of Hpakant.
Culture Kachin Lead Story News
Manau festival will go on despite calls to cancel
kachin officials are adamant the Manau Dance Festival will go ahead despite concerns over military tensions in the region.
Human Rights Kachin Lead Story News
Rights groups urge justice for Ja Seng Ing, Brang Shawng
Human rights groups ask Burmese government to drop case against Kachin man for filing complaint with Myanmar Human Rights Commission (MNHRC).
Conflict Kachin Lead Story News
Kachin villagers isolated as military tensions escalate
Local villages are cut off from town they rely on for trade as a disputes between the Burmese government army and the Kachin Independence Army continue.
Kachin Lead Story Military News Shan
Kachin, Palaung, Kokang forces clash with govt units in Muse
Small-arms and artillery fire exchange reported between rebel and government forces in Shan State.
Kachin IDPs wait for aid as winter sets in
Thousands of refugees at camps in northern Kachin State are facing food shortages since the state government blocked aid deliveries at the end of October.
Calls for probe into army killing of Kachin girl, 14
Girl’s family appeal to Burmese government to investigate if the Tatmadaw was involved in her death.
Business Kachin Lead Story News Trade
China’s crackdown on money laundering affects Burmese exports
Burmese exports to China have decreased recently following a Chinese government move to freeze hundreds of bank accounts in border regions in an attempt to crackdown on illicit financial transactions across the Sino-Burmese border.
Interview Kachin Lead Story News Peace Process
Govt ‘doesn’t speak the truth’: Gun Maw
In an exclusive interview with DVB, KIA heavyweight Gen. Gun Maw, says that the peace process has stalled due to the Burmese government’s disingenuous tactics.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story News
UN calls on all sides to protect civilians in Kachin State
Tensions in the region have risen since an incident on 19 November when 23 cadets were killed by a Burmese army artillery shell at a KIA training camp.
Conflict Kachin Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Cadet killings a ‘cowardly’ act, says ethnic bloc
The ethnic bloc and other groups condemn the killing of 23 cadets at a Kachin training camp; the Burmese military, however, said it was a mistake and that the artillery shell was meant as a warning shot.
Constitution Kachin Lead Story News
23 Kachin cadets killed, 13 injured in artillery attack
Twenty-three cadets from the Kachin Independence Army were killed and 13 injured when an officers’ training camp near Laiza was hit directly by an artillery shell.
Human Rights Kachin Lead Story News
Awareness campaign held for jailed Kachin refugees
“Then they were tortured and abused and forced to have sex. They were mocked for being Christians. The soldiers made one of them spread his arms like he was on a cross while the other had to perform a dance.”
