Oct 5, 2013 | News / Article
By MARK INKEY/ THE IRRAWADDY Britain is finalizing the details of military assistance that will see 30 high-ranking officers in the Burma Army receive specially tailored training, including instruction on how to operate within the rule of law, the head of a UK...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By AP / Robin McDowell (THABYUCHAING, Myanmar) — Buddhist mobs carrying swords and knives swarmed Zaw Lay Khar’s village again and again, clashing with Muslims and burning their homes. When she saw about 40 attackers approaching her home, she fled with her daughter...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
Reuters By Jared Ferrie THANDWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – The Buddhist mob mutilated and burned Khin Naing so severely his son couldn’t recognise the body, one of series of attacks that suggest a resurgence of a monk-led movement in Myanmar accused of stoking...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
Prague Daily Monitor Prague, Oct 3 (CTK) – Burmese dissident Min Ko Nain, who spent 16 years in solitary confinement under the rule of the military junta in the country, Thursday arrived in Prague where he will receive the human rights prize Homo Homini from the...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By KYAW PHYO THA / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON— It happened one night in the summer of 1989. Mutineers invaded their party headquarters at a border town near the Burmese-Chinese frontier in northeastern Shan State. In an outburst of anti-party feeling, they took full...
Oct 4, 2013 | News / Article
By SAMANTHA MICHAELS / THE IRRAWADDY RANGOON — Following pledges to enhance military ties with Burma, the United States has maintained a block on military assistance to President Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government for its use of child soldiers in armed conflict,...
