Aug 15, 2013 | News / Article
BNI The Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS), commonly known as the SSA South, recently issued a directive to its field units to make direct contact with their immediate Burmese army units as part of an effort to avoid further clashes, according to...
Aug 15, 2013 | News / Article
By KYAW PHYO THA RANGOON — The United Nations’ special rapporteur for human rights in Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana, met on Tuesday with the parents of a girl gunned down by the Burmese military in a killing that brought the brutality of the 1988 pro-democracy crackdown...
Aug 15, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
The Morung Express Sittwe, August 12 (Reuters): Attempts to bring stability to Myanmar’s strategic northwest Rakhine State could be unraveling after police opened fire on Rohingya Muslims for the third time in two months, reviving tensions in a region beset by...
Aug 15, 2013 | News / Article
Author: Thomson Reuters Foundation Correspondent CORRECTION – In paragraph 10, please read ‘Thailand-based Shwe Gas Movement, an activist group’, correcting from the group’s former description of itself as ‘Shwe Gas Movement, a group of...
Aug 15, 2013 | Rohingya Issues
By Reuters Staff Attempts to bring stability to Myanmar’s strategic northwest Rakhine State could be unraveling after police opened fire on Rohingya Muslims for the third time in two months, reviving tensions in a region beset by religious violence last year. Villages...
