An outpost belonging to the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) in northeastern Burma was burnt down on Sunday by government soldiers, who claimed to be searching for four Burmese “civilians” who went missing at the end of last month, rebels say. (more…)

Loi Taileng — 19 May 2012 was the last time the Shan State Army (SSA) South, officially the Restoration Council of Shan State /Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) and Naypyitaw’s Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) met in Kengtung to sign a 12 point union level agreement. (more…)

The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) has refused to leave an area near the Hat Gyi hydropower dam site in upper Myaing Gyi Ngu, Karen State, in defiance of an order by the government army. (more…)

Over 1,000 villagers face an escalating humanitarian crisis in northern Shan state, after being forced from their homes by fighting between government forces and ethnic minority rebels since late March, according to local sources. (more…)

The recent report that said Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SAA) seized 4 Burmese people who were selling photos around along the Shweli River bank in Muse District; Northern Shan State is the government’s plan to incite racism, according to a Shan local militia commander. (more…)

The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) did not take part in the decision of the Nippon Foundation, the Japanese philanthropic organization, to issue warning to the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘South’ to suspend its humanitarian aid assistance if the group failed to participate in the UNFC activities, said the grouping at a meeting in Chiangmai on 1 May. (more…)

In east Burma’s Karen State, hundreds of civilians have fled from their homes as fighting continues between the rebel Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and a government-backed militia, the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF). (more…)

Myanmar government forces have been accused of murdering three off-duty Palaung soldiers and raping two local women in northern Shan State. (more…)

Most of the Burma Army Light Infantry Divisions (LIDs) and Military Operations Commands (MOCs), the backbone of Ministry of Defense (Army), are now in frontlines positioning themselves in the ethnic armed group areas, said U Aung Kyaw Zaw, a Sino-Burmese border military and political observer. (more…)

The Myanmar government’s peace-making committee vice-chairman Aung Min, has sent a letter to the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) requesting a further round of peace talks in early May, according to peace broker Hla Maung Shwe. (more…)

The Chinese military has sent armed helicopters equipped with air-to-air missiles to Burma’s largest ethnic rebel group the United Wa State Army (UWSA), according to a report published in Jane’s Intelligence Review on Monday.
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The Chinese embassy in Yangon has denied fresh allegations that its government sold weapons to one of Myanmar’s armed ethnic groups.
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More than 1,000 villagers have fled their homes in eastern Burma’s Shan State since fighting escalated late last month between the government army and an ethnic armed group, Shan activists say.
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The Shan Human Rights Foundation (SHRF) has reported that Myanmar government troops stopped about 50 young men and women on a road in Tangyan Township in northern Shan State during last weeks’ New Year celebrations and forced them to walk alongside the column as human shields.
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It is reported that Burma army shelled 2 villages in Tangyan Township causing 2 injuries and 2 houses burned down.
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The Shan State Progress Party / Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) that had signed the ceasefire agreement with Naypyitaw on 28 January 2012 is now facing another military campaign launched by the Burma Army, according to local sources.
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Two locals, including a toddler, were injured by an artillery shell after clashes broke out between government forces and the Shan State Army North (SSA-N) earlier this week, according to local sources.
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The Burmese government’s top peace negotiator for ethnic conflicts is touring the United Kingdom this week to discuss his country’s peacemaking efforts with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Foreign Secretary William Hague and other UK officials. (more…)

More than 400 ethnic refugees in Burma’s northern Shan state are reluctant to leave the temporary camp where they have stayed for nearly two weeks for fear of clashes between rebels and government troops that broke out in late March, a relief worker said Friday.
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A meeting between the Union Peacemaking Committee and the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) that was planned to take place before Myanmar New Year has been postponed due to Minister Aung Win being out of the country. (more…)