[Yangon – 20 June, 2019] Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) must be recognized as equal citizens, adequately consulted and be able to meaningfully participate in all decision-making processes concerning their future to ensure that they are not further marginalized, said 15 local Myanmar/Burma civil society organizations in a new report released today – which coincides […]
Seeking Justice in Burma May 2019 The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) announced a ceasefire with the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP); a new Amnesty International report accused the Burma Army of war crimes in Rakhine State since January; and freedom of expression continued to be stifled as media organizations and journalists were targeted […]
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the two Reuters journalists who were jailed in Myanmar for more than 500 days after they were convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act, received their Pulitzer Prize for international reporting on Tuesday in New York City from the Pulitzer Prize Board. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). Reuters
Seeking Justice in Burma April 2019 Efforts to draft amendments to the military-drafted 2008 Constitution continued to draw opposition and support; Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of violence in Rakhine State; and freedom of expression continued to be stifled as media organizations received threats and defamation suits […]
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have spent more than a year in jail after being accused of breaching Official Secrets Act Two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar for their reporting of the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims have been pardoned and released after spending more than 500 days in jail. Wa Lone, 33, and Kyaw Soe […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]