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Burma Army Kills Woman and Continues Attacks in Ba Maw District, Kachin State

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2011
Myanmar

The Burma Army continues to attack people in three townships of Ba Maw District, Kachin State: Mun Si Township, Shwegu Township and Ba Maw Township. On 16 December 2011, Burma Army soldiers killed a woman from Prang Kawng Village. The woman, 30-year-old Lamung Kaw Seng, suffered from a mental disability. As Burma Army troops approached the village, all the villagers fled except for Lamung Kaw Seng. When the soldiers found her, they killed her and threw her into a toilet pit.

Burma Army continues attacks, burns houses and kills one man and two women; over 40,000 Kachin people now displaced by attacks and more preparing to run

Reports & Research
Enero, 2012
Myanmar

KEY DEVELOPMENTS:

* The Burma Army is currently attacking within six miles of Mai Ja Yang, a city in Kachin State that is a refuge for over 1,000 displaced people
* The Burma Army is firing an average of 100 mortar rounds per day into this area and is receiving reinforcements.
* Over 40,000 Kachin people now displaced by attacks and more are preparing to run

The International Community Must Stop Funding Gvt’s Attacks on Kachin Civilians: Moon Nay Li, General Secretary of KWAT

Reports & Research
Agosto, 2015
Myanmar

Moon Nay Li is the General Secretary of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT), an organisation which she joined in 2002 in order to work for her people and community. The KWAT was founded on September 9th 1999 in response to recognising the urgent need for women to organise themselves to help solve the growing social and economic problems in the Kachin State...The KWAT is very concerned that foreign aid and investment is serving to subsidise the government’s war machine.

Papun Situation Update: Lu Thaw Township, November 2011

Reports & Research
Enero, 2012
Myanmar

This report includes a situation update submitted to KHRG in November 2011 by a villager living in a hiding site in northern Lu Thaw Township, Papun District. The villager described an incident that occurred in October 2011 in which Tatmadaw soldiers fired six mortar shells into an area in which civilians are actively seeking to avoid attacks by Tatmadaw troops; no one was killed or injured during the attack.

Fighting and Ongoing Displacement in Kachin State, Burma: Update

Reports & Research
Mayo, 2012
Myanmar

KEY DEVELOPMENTS:

"While ceasefire negotiations are taking place in some ethnic areas, attacks continue in Kachin State, Northern Burma. The Burma Army is pressing its attacks in Kachin State with over 100 battalions deployed. There are over 50,000 Kachin people displaced, over 60 Kachin civilians killed and 100 Kachin soldiers killed. Burma Army casualties are unknown, but estimated at 1,000 wounded and killed. Along with the KIO, WPN, Partners and other organizations, the Kachin FBR teams are helping those in need

UN Urges Aid for Kachin IDPs in Rebel Areas

Reports & Research
Diciembre, 2012
Myanmar

A top United Nations official has urged the Burmese government to allow access to Kachin internally displaced persons (IDPs) in rebel-controlled areas of northernmost Burma.

Baroness Valerie Amos, the UN under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, told a press conference in Rangoon on Friday that conditions for displaced civilians remain dire and there was no reason to restrict access.

Militarization, Development and Displacement: Conditions for villagers in southern Tenasserim Division

Reports & Research
Marzo, 2011
Myanmar

Villagers in Te Naw Th'Ri Township, Tenasserim Division face human rights abuses and threats to their livelihoods, attendant to increasing militarization of the area following widespread forced relocation campaigns in the late 1990s. Efforts to support and strengthen Tatmadaw presence throughout Te Naw Th'Ri have resulted in practices that facilitate control over the civilian population and extract material and labour resources while at the same time preventing non-state armed groups from operating or extracting resources of their own.

Is Myanmar’s Peace Process Unraveling?

Reports & Research
Febrero, 2015
Myanmar

Over the last three weeks, fighting has broken out in Myanmar’s northeast between the military and several ethnic minority militias, including the ethnic Kokang Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and, allegedly, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). The KIA is one of the most powerful insurgent groups in Myanmar. At least 30,000 civilians have fled across the border into China, and the fighting has killed at least 130 people. The Myanmar military has attacked rebel groups with air strikes, and the fighting shows no sign of letting up.

MYANMAR KACHIN & NORTHERN SHAN STATES CAMP PROFILING ROUNDS 1-3: CROSS-CAMP AND TREND ANALYSIS REPORT 2013-2015

Reports & Research
Noviembre, 2014
Myanmar

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "Since June 2011, conflict between the Government of Myanmar and the Kachin Independence
Organisation (KIO) left a large number of people displaced across Myanmar’s Kachin and northern
Shan States. Although it is likely that many people were displaced before this date, it is estimated that
at least 95,000 have been displaced as of October 2015 as a result of this resurgence of conflict. Most of
the internally displaced persons (IDPs) are living with host families or in camps dispersed across the
area in 166 identified locations.

FBR Report: Kachin Update – Photo set two; Attacks Against the Kachin are Sporadic but Displacement is Constant

Reports & Research
Marzo, 2013
Myanmar

...although now there is sporadic fighting and shelling, but the Burma army is
strengthening its positions and
for the IDPs there is constant displacement. The Burma army is resupplying after two months of
airstrikes and ground assaults. On this mission the Burma army has been close all the time and have
built more camps and crept closer to Kachin positions and communities since we have been here. We
have reconed them in many places and they look well supplied, well fed, well

My children and I have nowhere to go: Kachin IDP

Reports & Research
Myanmar

Despite a number of peace talks having been conducted between the central government and Kachin Independence Army (KIA), there is no sign of the war ceasing in Kachin state. The ongoing armed conflict has been driving thousands of civilians out of their villages. Many IDPs are now living in church supported camps along with relief from international humanitarian agencies. IDPs living in crowded camps with limited support face various obstacles as they cannot practice their livelihood anymore.