Tag: Kokang
Strategic Partnership, Kokang Conflict and Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement
In his 3 April monthly radio message to the nation, President Thein Sein said he would not let Burma's strategic relationship with great powers...
Kokang’s legitimate negotiation stance should be accepted
As Nationwide Ceasefire Coordinating Team (NCCT) and Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) started to meet again on 17 March, for the seventh round of...
Martial law is license to kill: Human rights lawyer
Well known human rights lawyer and hard hitting critic Aung Htoo has unleashed a string of charges against the government and particularly the military...
New history text: How to keep hate speeches on the wane
Yesterday, SHAN was inundated with comments full of wrath and hate for its reports on the abuses-as-usual activities of the Burma Army troops in...
President sending wrong signal
President Thein Sein, accompanied by Commander in Chief Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing, visited troops wounded during clashes with the Kokang ‘renegades’ on Monday,...
To the defense chief: Be brave to make peace
On 5 January 1968, Peng Jiasheng, “with all out Chinese support”, as Bertil Lintner wrote in his Burma in Revolt, entered Kokang and seized...
