MEDIA ROW: AA and Tatmadaw engaged in fake war and public intimidation accusations
Lately, a row erupted between the Arakan Army (AA) and Tatmadaw not on the battlefield as has been the case quite intensively for the...
Chair of SNLD’s Muse Branch Re-Elected for 2019 Term
Sai Hla Pe beat out Union parliamentarian Sai Hpoe Myat and state parliamentarian Sai Kyaw Thein for the role. Current chair of the Shan...
GOVERNMENT’S UNWISE POLICY: Directive to annihilate AA leads to peace negotiation deadlock
On March 23, Arakan Army (AA) released battle news report covering the period from March 16 to 23. In its summary, it reported that...
Shan Armed Groups Declare Ceasefire
After months of conflict the RCSS/SSA and SSPP/SSA finally agree to stop fighting. Rival Shan armed groups that have been fighting since the end of...
Positive expectation of Naypyitaw meeting will be minimal
With the flare up incidence of March 18 in Arakan state Marauk-U, where the AA and as well the Tatmadaw are blaming each other...
All Non- NCA Armed Organisations Attending Peace Talks
Ethnic armed groups will meet with the government as a group and then separately with the Myanmar Army. The government's National Reconciliation and Peace Center...
END OF UNILATERAL CEASEFIRE?: Tatmadaw’s renewed offensives against SSPP
Following the meeting with the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army) delegation led by Lt. General Yar Pyae and representatives of Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) led...
RCSS’s Gen Yawd Serk Asks Veterans to Help Resolve Shan State Conflict
The RCSS/SSA chair also defended the organization’s claim to territory in northern Shan State. Chairperson of the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army...
RCSS, NRPC Discuss ‘Essential Issues’ in Naypyidaw
The meeting marks the first formal discussions between the Shan armed group and government officials in months. Delegations from the Burmese government’s National Reconciliation and...
NATIONAL RECONCILIATION: NLD-led constitutional amendment or NCA-based political settlement
As the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-based peace process negotiation stagnated, the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led initiative constitutional amendment within the parliament started to...
