| Suu Kyi’s party calls for landmine ban |
| News - War Written by DVB Wednesday, 07 April 2010 18:24 | | Burma’s opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party has called for an end to the use of landmines in Burma following a rise in the number of mine-related deaths. | | Read more... |
| 100-strong army convoy in Kachin |
| News - War Written by DVB Wednesday, 07 April 2010 18:24 | | Around 100 Burmese army trucks have been spotted close to the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) as tension mounts over its refusal to transform into a border militia. | | Read more... |
| Food imports to Wa state ‘blocked’ |
| News - War Written by DVB Wednesday, 07 April 2010 18:24 | | Burma’s ruling junta has reportedly blocked the flow of food into the country’s volatile Wa state in a possible sign of looming hostilities against an ethnic army there. | | Read more... |
| News - War Written by S.H.A.N. Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:45 | | | A Wa fighter was shot to death by a Thai patrol last Friday, 5 February, while he with 2 companions was hunting on the Thai-Burma border, according to Thai and Shan sources... | | Read more... |
| Shan army ‘should prepare for fighting’ |
| News - War Written by DVB Wednesday, 10 February 2010 21:42 | | | A senior Burmese junta security chief has reportedly warned a Shan-based ethnic army to expect conflict unless it transforms into a Border Guard Force and allies itself with the government... | | Read more... |
| KIA Conducts Militia Training |
| News - War Written by LAWI WENG/The Irrawaddy Thursday, 04 February 2010 19:27 | | | The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), one of a number of ethnic cease-fire groups under pressure to transform itself into a border guard force under Burmese army command ... | | Read more... |
| Tension to force more refugees into Thailand |
| News - War Written by Brian McCartan/Mizzima News Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:01 | | | With an offensive expected in northern Karen State this dry season and the possibility of renewed hostilities between the junta and ceasefire armies in Shan State ... | | Read more... |
| Wa army training ‘thousands’ of civilians |
| News - War Written by AKT/DVB Tuesday, 19 January 2010 10:21 | | | Military training is being given by a Burmese ceasefire group to thousands of civilians in Shan state amid tensions between the ceasefire group and the Burmese army, regional sources say... | | Read more... |
| China tough with junta on Kokang |
| News - War Written by Shan Herald Agency for News Thursday, 13 August 2009 23:34 | | | China may well be backing Naypyitaw, when it comes to democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and the over 2,000 political prisoners in Burma, but it has adopted a tough stance, twice in a week, when the Burmese Army tried to impose itself ... | | Read more... |
| KIO submits list of its departments to junta |
| News - War Written by Kachin News Group Thursday, 13 August 2009 22:10 | | | One of Burma's largest ethnic ceasefire groups, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) or as it calls itself the Kachin Independent Government, yesterday submitted a list of its government departments to the Burmese junta to prove ... | | Read more... |
| Tension Mounts at Three Pagodas Pass |
| News - War Written by LAWI WENG/The Irrawaddy Thursday, 13 August 2009 22:08 | | | More Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops are deploying near Three Pagodas Pass in preparation for an offensive against Brigade 6 of the Karen National Liberation Army, according to local sources... | | Read more... |
| Palpable tension between Burmese Army and Kokant rebels |
| News - War Written by Salai Pi Pi Tuesday, 11 August 2009 16:35 | | | Tension flared between the Burmese Army and the Kokant ethnic ceasefire group, following a stand-off for about five hours between the two sides near the Sino-Burma border on Saturday... | | Read more... |
| Face off between Burmese Army and Kokang rebels |
| News - War Written by Shan Herald Agency for News Monday, 10 August 2009 23:11 | | | The 20-year long ceasefire between the Burmese military junta and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) almost came to an abrupt end on August 8, when the former demanded to inspect the latter’s alleged firearms factory ... | | Read more... |
| Gunfire in Burmese Army camp in Tibual |
| News - War Written by Khonumthung News Wednesday, 05 August 2009 19:25 | | | There was a gunfight amongst Burmese Army soldiers in the Tibual based military camp LIB 269 on August 2 in Falam township, northern Chin state Burma. A report said that gunfire was heard between 1 pm to 3 pm. A duty commander at the camp shot at the patrolling sub-commander Thein Thaih and his group... | | Read more... |
| Ragtag rebels vow to fight on in Myanmar |
| News - War Written by Claire Truscott/AFP Sunday, 12 July 2009 18:43 | |  They prowl their jungle battleground in sneakers and have to steal their weapons, but Myanmar's ethnic Karen rebels say they will never quit their struggle against the junta... | | Read more... |
| Karen armed group to fight ‘with guerilla warfare’ |
| News - War Written by Naw Noreen/DVB Friday, 10 July 2009 17:36 | | | The Karen National Union will defend their territory “with guerrilla warfare” following rumours that the pro-junta Democratic Karen Buddhist Army is preparing to attack a strategic Karen base... | | Read more... |
| KNLA 7th Brigade loses a quarter of its territory |
| News - War Written by Mizzima News Thursday, 09 July 2009 21:34 | | | After a month-long fierce military offensive, the joint forces of the Burmese Army and Karen splinter group – the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) – have taken possession of much of the 7th Brigade base ... | | Read more... |
| Victory over KNU, new order on Thai-Burma border |
| News - War Written by Brian McCartan/Mizzima News Monday, 06 July 2009 22:01 | | | The victory of the Burmese Army and its proxy, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), in attacks on bases of the Karen National Union (KNU) last month, puts the regime in firm control of a major portion of its border with Thailand ... | | Read more... |
| DKBA-Tatmadaw Look to Brigade 5 |
| News - War Written by SAW YAN NAING/The Irrawaddy Monday, 06 July 2009 21:56 | | | The combined forces of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and the Burmese army have turned their attention northward as they look to capitalize on their recent successful campaign of capturing the Karen National Liberation Army ... | | Read more... |
| Thousands of Burmese flee offensive to Thai border |
| News - War Written by DVB Monday, 08 June 2009 18:11 | | Following a series of offensives over the weekend by government troops against the Karen National Union, over 3000 Karen villagers, many of whom are women and children, have now fled into Thailand...
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