Myanmar president reaffirms army role
Source: Channel NewsAsia
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2012-03-04 10:40:29 -0800 | political-news
Myanmar's nominally-civilian president sought to reaffirm the status of the country's military on Wednesday, giving credit to the army and the former junta for recent political reform gestures. On the country's independence day former general Thein Sein stressed the importance...
Top wars in 2012
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2012-03-03 19:33:32 -0800 | political-news
International Crisis Groups (ICC ), an NGO that seeks to prevent and resolve deadly conflicts.Louise Arbour, the group's president, said in a statement the list reflects the ranking of wars at risk of deteriorating further in 2012.Arbour said Burma's civil...
Burma Army turns a deaf ear to halt war in Kachin State
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2012-02-17 04:24:57 -0800 | political-news
Burma's President Thein Sein civilian government has been maneuvering war against the Kachin rebels incessantly, although there are heavy casualties on its side. Starting from 9 June, the six-month long civil war claimed more than a thousand lives of government...
UN Launches Relief Aid in Kachin State Conflict Zones
Source: Myanmar News
New Delhi :: India | updated 2012-02-14 15:59:09 -0800 | political-news
The UN began initial efforts on Tuesday to provide aid for refugees in the armed conflict areas of Kachin State in northern Burma, where sporadic fighting continues despite Burmese President Thein Sein's reported instruction to government troops that they should...
Myanmar bomb blast kills 10: Officials
Source: Daily News & Analysis
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2012-01-24 11:54:40 -0800 | political-news
A bomb blast in the capital of Myanmar's northern Kachin state has killed 10 people, including two women, a government official in the military-dominated country said today. Another 23 people, including some 15 children, were injured in the explosion Sunday...
Myanmar government must go further with prisoner release
Source: Myanmar News
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | updated 2012-01-26 13:43:05 -0800 | political-news
The release of at least 120 political prisoners in Myanmar today is a minimum first step, and authorities must immediately and unconditionally release all remaining prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International said today.Prisoners of conscience make up the majority of the...
Myanmar moves to release prisoners
Source: United Press International
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2011-12-12 22:23:52 -0800 | political-news
Myanmar will start releasing up to 6,359 prisoners this week, a statement on state-run television said. No mention was made of political prisoners being released but the Irrawaddy news Web site, staffed by many Myanmar exiles living in Thailand, said...
KIA Denies Govt Allegations of Drug Links
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2011-12-11 17:20:10 -0800 | entertainment-news
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has denied government allegations that it is involved with drug trafficking by saying the reports are merely an attempt to discredit the armed group. State-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported on Tuesday that...
AP Enterprise: In Myanmar, living in fear of army
Source: Taiwan News
Arakan :: Myanmar | updated 2011-11-24 09:59:46 -0800 | political-news
Myanmar (AP) _ The soldiers arrived unexpectedly in 15-year-old Sai Noom Mong's village in eastern Myanmar with a brutal message: Leave your homes, they told hundreds of startled residents, or we'll burn them to the ground. Fearful of their fate...
An Asean Solution for Burma
Source: Myanmar News
Pyinmana :: Myanmar | updated 2011-11-24 00:27:12 -0800 | political-news
When I first visited Burma, on Sept. 17, 1988, it was to report on a massive popular uprising and what I thought would be the advent of democracy in a country that even then had been under the heel of...
Study sees change in Myanmar, urges engagement
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2011-11-23 10:35:46 -0800 | political-news
Western nations should reach out to Myanmar to encourage the new leadership's reforms, which are exceeding even the most optimistic hopes, the International Crisis Group said Thursday. The think-tank, which focuses on conflict resolution, credited the nominally civilian new president,...
We Have No Child Soldiers—But Ethnics Do
Source: Myanmar News
Bangkok :: Thailand | updated 2011-11-22 02:29:59 -0800 | political-news
Tatmadaw was formed with volunteers since the formation of Tatmadaw for independence struggle [sic]."The report went on to accuse "insurgent groups" of practicing forced recruitment, saying that their policy was to take one person per household.
Burma must consider favourably ethnic people’s proposals for peace-talks
Source: Asian Tribune
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2011-10-31 04:38:53 -0700 | political-news
37 editor Burma's President Thein Sein government broadcasted a statement on 18 August concerning peace talks; it urged all rebel groups to get in touch with regional governments to initiate dialogue. According to the government, it would be forming...
'Farmers Starve In Front of My Eyes'
Source: Myanmar News
Pyinmana :: Myanmar | updated 2011-10-30 06:07:32 -0700 | political-news
Lawyer Poe Phyu, also known as Yan Naing Aung, is helping farmers from different parts of Burma whose lands have been illegally confiscated. He was arrested and imprisoned in 2009 while working on a case in Magwe Division. Since his...
Myanmar rebels reject peace call
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2011-10-23 19:02:51 -0700 | political-news
Myanmar's ethnic armed groups have rejected the government's call to enter individual peace talks as a divide-and-rule tactic, an expatriate newspaper reported. The government newspaper New Light of Myanmar said the offer of peace talks is an "olive branch" to...
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