The Tamadaw, the military of Myanmar, has been attacking the ethnic minority Kachin people in what some observers are calling a genocide. Although much attention has been given to the ethnic Rohingya, ...

While the world’s attention has focused on the horror unleashed against the Rohingya population in Myanmar’s West, an old war in the country’s North has taken on a new ferocity, forcing thousands to ...

The Myanmar military's ongoing offensive against rebels in northern Kachin State has resulted in thousands of people taking refuge in churches. And Father Peter Hka Awng Tu, parish priest of St.

In the scramble for access to the nation's rare earth deposits, a non-state armed group holds the cards. As Myanmar’s military pushes forward with its plan to consolidate power through sham elections, ...

The situation of people displaced by fighting in Myanmar's Kachin State is worsening and more humanitarian assistance from the international community is needed, says a leading church official. Bishop ...

She had just finished describing how she had been raped by two men, dressed as policemen, when more police showed up. These police weren’t wearing uniforms, but everyone in the village in Burma’s ...

Despite progress in its transition to democracy, Myanmar has struggled to end all the ethnic insurgencies that have long divided the country. Now the Kachin — the last of the insurgent groups that ...

(New York) – The Burmese government should make a long-term commitment with humanitarian agencies to provide relief to Burma’s war-torn Kachin state, Human Rights Watch said today. Since June 2011, an ...

Activists inscribe a call for federal democracy at the Myitsone confluence of the Irrawaddy River, north of Myitkyina, Kachin State, February 23, 2021. Credit: Courtesy Myitkyina News Journal ...

Fighting between the Burmese army and Kachin rebels reignited last June, displacing some 75,000 ethnic Kachin and leaving them in desperate need of food, medicine, and shelter. However, the Burmese ...

ZHANG SHENGQI is nervous of the police. In Yingjiang, a Chinese county bordering on Myanmar (see map), he asks the driver of his car to stop so he can check whether he is being followed. Mr Zhang, a ...