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Wa Lone, Kyaw Soe Oo among 6,520 prisoners freed in presidential pardon

By YE MON | FRONTIER YANGON — Reuters journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo were among 6,520 inmates freed on Tuesday in the third and final round of a mass presidential pardon to mark the Myanmar New Year. The two reporters were freed from Yangon’s Insein Prison on Tuesday morning. Wa Lone […]

Human Rights Situation in Burma 2018

The reporting period saw approximately 190 armed clashes, with some 32,000 people becoming newly displaced as a result.1 At the time of writing, there is an estimated 106,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in 172 IDP sites in northern Shan and Kachin states, with requests by humanitarian organizations for humanitarian access to IDP camps outside of […]

ND-Burma’s bi-annual report finds intensification of conflict led to continued deterioration of human rights in Burma

Throughout 2018, ND-Burma found that the human rights situation in Burma continued to deteriorate due to the intensification of conflict between the military and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs). This was particularly the case in northern Kachin and Shan states, and the majority of cases documented by ND-Burma’s member organisations originated from these two states.

မြန်မာ အစိုးရ တပ် နာမည်ပျက် စာရင်း သွင်းခံရ

မြန်မာ နိုင်ငံမှာ အစိုးရ စစ်တပ် ဟာ အဓမ္မ ပြုကျင့် တာတွေ၊ လိင် ပိုင်း ဆိုင်ရာ အကြမ်းဖက် မှုတွေ ကျူးလွန် နေတယ် ဆိုတဲ့ စွပ်စွဲ ချက် နဲ့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ က အတွင်း ရေးမှူးချုပ် အန်တိုနီယို ဂူတားရက်စ် နာမည် ပျက် စာရင်း တင်သွင်း လိုက်ပါတယ်။ အစိုးရ စစ်တပ် အနေနဲ့ ပထမဦးဆုံး အကြိမ် ကုလသမဂ္ဂ မှာ နာမည်ပျက် စာရင်း သွင်း ခံရတာ ဖြစ်ပြီး ဧပြီလ ၁၆ ရက်နေ့မှာ ကျင်းပမယ့် လုံခြုံရေး ကောင်စီ အစည်းအဝေးမှာ ဒီ အကြောင်းကို ဆွေးနွေးကြမှာပါ။ အရင် စစ် အစိုးရ […]

Justice News (March 2019)

Seeking Justice in Burma March 2019 Clashes intensify in Rakhine State displacing thousands; Burma Army continues to violate its declaration of a unilateral ceasefire in Kachin and Shan states; UN Human Rights Council adopts resolution and renews Special Rapporteur’s mandate; and deadline to register ancestral land passes with potentially devastating consequences Clashes between the Arakan […]

Myanmar Supreme Court to hear appeal of jailed Reuters reporters

The Supreme Court of Myanmar will hear an appeal by the lawyers of jailed Reuters news agency reporters Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone on March 26, according to a statement by the Committee to Protect Journalists, quoting Reuters. The reporters are each serving seven-year sentences under the colonial-era Official Secrets Act for allegedly possessing […]

Myanmar Military Court to Probe Rohingya Atrocity Allegations

By REUTERS 19 March 2019 YANGON—Myanmar’s military said on Monday it had set up a military court to investigate its conduct during a crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in 2017 that forced more than 730,000 to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. The court comprising a major-general and two colonels will investigate events in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State in […]

Ethnic Lishaw accuses TNLA of kidnappings

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) is kidnapping ethnic Lishaw people for ransom, a spokesperson for the ethnic group told a press conference. Daw Khin Theint Theint Tun said TNLA members, who are ethnic Palaung, have abducted young Lishaw children and demanded millions of kyat in ransom. The Lishaw are an ethnic group living in Shan […]

Seeking Justice in Burma (February 2019)

Seeking Justice in Burma  February 2019 Union Parliament votes in favour of committee to draft amendments to the 2008 Constitution; Continued human rights violations in Rakhine State by Burma Army; Civic space for freedom of expression and freedom of assembly continues to shrink. The Union Parliament voted in favour of forming a committee to draft […]