Ceasefire Talks and Ongoing Conflict Update from the Field Free Burma Rangers Karen State, Burma We are relaying this update out from where we are on relief missions in Karen State, Burma. In spite of positive changes in Burma; such as release of many political prisoners, easing of restrictions on the press, and beginning of [...]
Review of 2011 internationally and events in Japan (March 11 and brutal tsunami) James Jomo and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times In 2011 many political convulsions have challenged nations in North Africa and the Middle East. The optimism of the so-called “Arab Spring” remains to be unfulfilled because you have so much uncertainty in [...]
Update From Kachin FBR Relief Team Over 20 Villages, 3000 People, Fleeing Burma Army Attacks Free Burma Rangers The Burma Army has killed a villager and over 20 villages have fled attacks and mortar fire in Momauk Township, Kachin State. Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 73 under Division 88 has been attacking villages, with troops from [...]
Burma and China: The Beginning of the End of Business as Usual? Publication: China Brief Volume: 11 Issue: 22 By: Ian Storey The Jamestown Foundation The introduction of a slew of economic reforms and political initiatives by the Burmese government in the second half of 2011 have significant implications for the carriage of Burmese foreign [...]
Japan to help fund a Southern Corridor linking Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam & Myanmar Joachim de Villiers and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Prime Minister Noda and other leading politicians are intent on expanding the influence of Japan internationally and the latest pledge of two trillion yen looks very promising. This applies to developing the transportation [...]
FBR REPORT: Kachin State – Burma Army Burns and Loots Homes in Wai Maw District Free Burma Rangers Fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burma Army broke out on 9 June 2011, ending a 17-year cease-fire agreement between the two groups. As many as 20,000 people have been displaced by [...]
Burma: Violations and Humanitarian Crisis Continues in Eastern Burma According To New Report Christian Solidarity Worldwide Serious violations of human rights continue to be committed by the Burma Army in eastern Burma, while humanitarian conditions deteriorate due to a lack of international funding, according to a new report released today by Christian Solidarity Worldwide [...]
Burma: Kachin and Karen Conflict Escalates As Talk of Change Grows Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Free Burma Rangers The deceased 7-year-old Saw Kaw Buh – Free Burma Rangers Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is deeply concerned by reports of a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Kachin State, Burma. Information received by CSW from Kachin sources indicate [...]
Myanmar: Major Reform Underway Asia Briefing N°127 International Crisis Group OVERVIEW Six months after the transition to a new, semi-civilian government, major changes are taking place in Myanmar. In the last two months, President Thein Sein has moved rapidly to begin implementing an ambitious reform agenda first set out in his March 2011 [...]
Midnight Planes drive people to shelters S.H.A.N. Shan Herald The planes had flown from the south probably from the Namzang airfield. “We were so frightened no one’s going out to work in the fields when morning came,” said a villager from Wan Nim. Both SSA and local sources were unable to [...]
Burman Army withdraws from Mongla S.H.A.N. Shan Herald Troops besieging areas controlled by Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) are pulling out from at least 2 locations, according to NDAA sources. At Mong Fan, south of Hsop Lwe, where the Lwe tributary joins the Mekong, only about 50 Burmese troops out of the [...]
Fighting intensifies around rebel HQ S.H.A.N. Shan Herald Failing to bombard the Shan State Army (SSA) North fighters from the air, the Burma Army had recently resorted to pounding rebel bases with heavy weapons brought in by two artillery commands and thereby forcing Shan fighters to leave their mountain bastions to employ [...]
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