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Thousands in Kachin rally against violence
Published on 12/05/2018
» MYITKYINA, Myanmar: Thousands of young people in northern Myanmar have staged one of the largest protests in years, successfully urging authorities to rescue civilians caught up in deadly fighting that threatens to unravel the country's fitful peace process.
Kachin civilians flee Myanmar's 'forgotten war'
AFP, Published on 18/05/2018
» DANAI, Myanmar: Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmar's army, now reinforced by a unit notorious for its brutal "clearance" operations.
Kachin civilians flee Myanmar's 'forgotten war'
AFP, Published on 18/05/2018
» DANAI (MYANMAR) - Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmar's army, now reinforced by a unit notorious for its brutal "clearance" operations.
'Forgotten war' strips Kachin of hope
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 14/06/2018
» Myanmar's "forgotten war" in Kachin state has received little public attention despite the scale of the impact it has had on people who have become internally displaced and the casualties caused by the fighting between ethnic rebels and the army.
Nothing to celebrate at Kachin Thanksgiving
News, Published on 28/11/2019
» Four score minus seven years ago, on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, the leaders of four of Myanmar's main ethnic groups -- the majority Burmans, plus Kachin, Chin and Shan -- committed to creating a country conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. The year before independence from Britain in 1948, the legacy Panglong Agreement created conditions for a multicultural country including "a separate Kachin State within a Unified Burma … [I]t is agreed that such a State is desirable".
Myanmar police open murder probe in Kachin
Published on 10/03/2018
» YANGON: Police in Myanmar have opened a murder investigation into the killing of two men said to have been shot in the head after they were detained by soldiers in the conflict-torn north of the country.
Internally displaced Kachin battle to return home
News, Published on 12/10/2019
» 'All they have is land," an ethnic Kachin civil society leader said as he explained the growing frustration among internally displaced people living in camps in northern Myanmar. "They don't have houses left because they've been destroyed by conflict, so land is the only thing that ties them to what they left behind."
Myanmar soldiers accused of killing 2 Kachin civilians
Associated Press, Published on 09/03/2018
» A community leader in Myanmar's Kachin State says the bodies of two civilians last seen in the custody of soldiers have been found in a shallow grave.
In Myanmar's Kachin, jungle treks to escape war
Associated Press, Published on 08/05/2018
» MYITKYINA, Myanmar: As the Myanmar army's bombs started falling near her home in Kachin state, Nlam Numrang Doi and her neighbours decided they had no choice but to grab what they could and scatter into the jungle.
2,000 Kachin trapped by Myanmar fighting lack food, medicine
Associated Press, Published on 19/04/2018
» Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where they fled to escape clashes between the Myanmar's army and the Kachin guerrillas in the country's north.