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Tuesday, 06 September 2011 10:37 Sai Wansai
By: Sai Wansai
Tuesday, 6 September
It has been a few weeks now, since the 18th August announcement by Naypyitaw inviting “national race armed groups wishing to make peace” to peace talks.
So far, Naypyidaw has used its concerned state governments to contact various [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Sep 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
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REPORT ON BURMA ARMY USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS
September 5, 2011
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Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
by Henri-André Aye
The Panglong Agreement was an attempt to build a union out of desperate peoples. The agreement was a political marriage, trying to unite the Bamar and the non-Bamar to live together in peace and dignity. It was a marriage of political convenience — but one without love. And the honeymoon was short-lived as [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
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KNLA SIX MONTH BATTLE REPORT
August 21, 2011
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http://www.dictatorwatch.org/KNLA/KNLA2011sixmonths.pdf
This is the 2011 six month battle report for the Karen National Liberation Army. It reveals that from January to June enemy losses (Burma Army and related Border Guard Forces) totaled 761 Killed In Action and 1,047 Wounded In Action casualties.
Points [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
By Naw Htoo Paw
The Nation – Published on August 22, 2011
Ethnic people of Burma are having a hard time. Burma Army soldiers are targeting women in Kachin and Shan State for rape. Villagers are used as forced labour. Development projects mean forced relocation and slave labour. Half a million ethnic people are [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 21st, 2011 No Comments »
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BLOG: BURMA CONFLICT SITUATION REPORT
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1. Burma is in a state of war, and has been since January 1949. This is when Ne Win, who became the first modern dictator of the country, had his private army commit atrocities against the Karen people (Burma’s second largest ethnic group), and attack their political organizations [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 17th, 2011 No Comments »
BURMA: Comprehensive peace deal possible through tripartite dialogue
Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:09 Sai Wansai
By: Sai Wansai
Wednesday, 17 August 2011
Fresh after the second meeting with minister Aung Kyi, the Pegu or Bago day trip visit of Aung San Suu Kyi have been a success, both in terms of [...]
Posted in Feature Articles, Interviews on Aug 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Monday, August 15, 2011
The resumption of clashes between Burmese troops and the Shan State Army-North (SSA-North), a former ceasefire group, since earlier this year has resulted in the displacement of more than 30,000 people, according to a press statement released last week by Shan human rights groups. [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 9th, 2011 No Comments »
BURMA: Conceptual difference of “Peace” and “Ceasefire” hamper negotiation process
Tuesday, 09 August 2011 11:49 Sai Wansai
By: Sai Wansai
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Last week, KIO/KIA prepared a set of questions for Col Than Aung, the Kachin State minister for border affairs and head of the government emissary, who [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Uncertain futures
Attempts by the junta to dismantle and bring ethnic ceasefire groups under its direct control by making them join a Border Guard Force have failed
Published: 7/08/2011 at 12:00 AM
Monsoon rains lash the mountains along the northern Thai-Burma border. Thunder rumbles overhead, lightening flashes and streams of mud wash across [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 4th, 2011 No Comments »
Burma: Could staggering cost of ethnic conflict lead to a political settlement?
Thursday, 04 August 2011 10:59 Sai Wansai
By: Sai Wansai
Wednesday, 03 August, 2011
Latest news on the ceasefire talks between the KIO/KIA and the Burmese regime and the partial withdrawal of the Burma Army, poised to attack the SSPP/SSA Wanhai [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jul 24th, 2011 No Comments »
SSA Ethical Stand against Burma Army Barbarian Acts
Sunday, 24 July 2011 18:00 Sai Wansai
By: Sai Wansai
Friday, 24 July 2011
Maj Gen Pang Fa, general secretary of the Shan State Progress [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jul 17th, 2011 No Comments »
17jul11 KNLAjune1to18
http://www.dictatorwatch.org/KNLA/KNLAjune1to18.pdf
Posted in Feature Articles on Jul 11th, 2011 No Comments »
11jul11 Burma Unknowns
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 24th, 2011 1 Comment »
KHRG Report
Preliminary Report based on information independently gathered by the Karen Human Rights Group
March 15, 1994
On August 12, 1993 in the middle of the night, villagers in a large part of the Donthami and Yunzalin river watersheds (between the Bilin and Salween Rivers, in Thaton and Mudraw [Papun] districts) heard SLORC planes fly low over [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Written by: Eurasia Review
June 5, 2011
By Nava Thakuria
Burma (Myanmar or Brahmadesh) may have officially transformed into a democracy after the 2010 November general election, but the ground realities for the poor Burmese remain the same. And the outcome is the continuous fleeing of Burmese to neighbouring India, Bangladesh [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
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IS IT TIME FOR AN AMNESTY IN BURMA?
June 8, 2011
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We have a new post on our conflict blog, a report which describes clashes between the Karen National Liberation Army and the Burma Army during the month of May. (We also have six different KNLA sitreps covering the month of April.)
As [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
BLOG: BURMA CONFLICT SITUATION REPORT
(www.dictatorwatch.org/burmaconflictblog.html)
1. Burma is in a state of war, and has been since January 1949. This is when Ne Win, who became the first modern dictator of the country, had his private army commit atrocities against the Karen people (Burma’s second largest ethnic group), and attack their political organizations [...]