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, ...
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.
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 ...
YANGON, Myanmar – A state-run newspaper in Myanmar on Friday said recent battles between government troops and Kachin ethnic rebels had killed 31 people, as the ongoing fighting threatens the ...
A woman and children are pictured in the predominantly Christian region of Myanmar’s Kachin state, which has witnessed sporadic fighting for decades. Renewed fighting since 2011 between the military ...
More than 2,000 villagers in Kachin state have fled their homes after fighting erupted between government forces and armed ethnic soldiers, according to an aid worker in the area. The villagers ...
Cadets from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group’s headquarters in Laiza, Kachin State, Myanmar, October 2016. Credit: VOA / Public Domain In west Kachin state ...
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 ...
As conflict reignites in Northern Shan and Kachin, 5,000 people this month displaced by the world’s longest running civil war More than 120,000 displaced in Myanmar’s hidden crisis New York, NY, April ...
As the sun slowly sets behind the jungle-covered mountains of northern Burma’s Kachin state, a dozen or so rebel fighters are preparing for a night in the trenches at their hilltop post. Conditions ...