There can be no strong union if the constituent states are weak, the recently released political prisoner and leader of the de-registered Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) Hkun Htun Oo told a visiting Canadian organization last Sunday, 26 February. “The Union government still call…
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) says an agreement to begin a political dialogue to solve decades old disagreements can be signed as soon as Burmese government troops withdraw from KIO areas. A cease-fire agreement was signed in 1994, and there is…
Since the ceasefire agreement was signed on 2 December 2012, between the Shan State Army and Naypyitaw, the Burma Army appears to have been more active especially in Eastern Shan State, where its Triangle Region Command with its headquarters in Kengtung, is stationed. On the…
Please look at the map of Burma, what do you see? Burma Proper, the homeland of the majority of ethnic Burmans, surrounded by seven other ethnic states, the homelands of the ; Shan, Kachin, Chin, Karen, Mon, Arakan and Kayah. Geographically, they are neighbours, therefore…