Government’s “total peace” in 2020 realizable?
The opinion piece of January 1, 2020 The Global New Light of Myanmar wrote that "Our new year resolution should be “total peace” in...
KAREN NEW YEAR MESSAGE: KNU Chairman outlined ethnic rights of self-determination
On 26 December 2019 Karen New Year Day, Karen National Union (KNU) Chairman Saw Mutu Say Poe in his felicitation letter to all Karen...
GAMBIA VERSUS MYANMAR: International Court of Justice Blues
The three-day International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearing from December 10 to 12 - in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the...
Shan Orgs Support Legal Action Against Burma at ICJ
Seventeen Shan civil society and community-based organizations spoke out this week in support of charges brought by Gambia against the Burmese state at the...
ETHNIC YEARLY ROUND-UP : Ethnic states in 2019
The Kachin, Shan and Arakan States continued to be bogged down in armed conflict, while Karen State also saw skirmishes due to Tatmadaw (Myanmar...
Amnesty International report revealed civilian sufferings caused by ethnic conflict
While Myanmar is faced with it biggest woe of having to appear before the International Court of Justice on charges of state-sponsored genocide scheduled...
SHOWDOWN IN INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: Sovereignty versus human rights?
Now that the State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has officially said that she will lead the legal team to confront the genocide accusation...
RCSS Reaffirms ‘Commitment to NCA Path’
Representatives from the Burmese government and Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) held a meeting in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand on the...
Burma Army Searches Ta’ang Organization Offices, Homes in Lashio
Burma Army soldiers and members of the police force searched ethnic Ta’ang homes and the offices of multiple civil society organizations (CSOs) in Lashio,...
2020 GENERAL ELECTIONS: Will the Wa Self-Administrative Division participate?
On November 3, spokesperson of Union Election Commission (UEA) Myint Naing told the media there is a plan to hold the upcoming 2020 general...
