Tag: Shan State
Villagers Displaced by Violence Between Multiple Armed Groups
Since the military coup, over one-thousand civilians have been displaced by fighting between multiple ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) and the Burma Army in three...
Pregnant Woman and Man Killed During Shelling
A pregnant woman and a man were killed after a shell landed in their village in Burma's Kyaukme Township in northern Shan State during...
Military Regime Bans Facebook
After many took to Facebook to resist the Tatmadaw's military takeover of the country, the regime ordered mobile network operators to shut it down....
Taunggyi Health Workers Protest Against Military Coup
Health workers in southern Shan State protested the Burma Army's military takeover outside of Sao San Htun Public Hospital this Thursday, February 4. "We don't...
Ethnic Youth Federation Against World Bank Project
By Hseng Leng/SHAN A Shan youth organization wants the government to reject a $225M loan offered from the World Bank for its ‘Peaceful and Prosperity...
Woman Shot Dead in Hsipaw Township
By Hseng Leng/SHAN Unidentified assailants shot and killed a woman and injured her husband when the couple returned to their home in northern Shan State...
Farmers Threatened to Accept Deal for Confiscated Land
By- Hseng Hleng The government seized land from farmers in eastern Shan State and threatened them to accept substitute land, according to a Shan political...
Shan Armed Groups Attempt to Forge Understanding
Representatives of two Shan ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) fighting each other in northern Shan State spoke by telephone on December 10. Lt-Col Oum Khur, spokesperson...
Medical Staff Struggle To Keep Up With COVID-19 Outbreak
Taunggyi Township will soon not have enough medical staff to treat and test for COVID-19 if the outbreak continues in southern Shan State. The...
Displaced Farmers Want to Return Home
Farmers who were forced to flee fighting in northern Shan State in the middle of the harvest period are eager to return to their...
