Accidents Lead Story Migrants Issues News
“Two of them survived but the other two are still missing. One of the survivors managed to grab hold of a tree root which saved his life.”
2015 Elections Karenni Lead Story News Politics
The leadership of Burma’s main opposition party has ordered a ban on its candidates from speaking to the media for at least the next three weeks.
Karenni Land Lead Story News Protest
Following last week’s sentencing of three local farmers, a Karenni court finds six more guilty of trespassing, prompting local supporters to stage a rally.
As many as 500 villagers protested in front of a township court after three of their peers were sentenced for their part in a symbolic “plough protest”.
Karenni farmers, who sent a letter to Commander-in-chief Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing asking him to intervene in a local land dispute, say they have now been threatened by local military commanders.
More than 200 farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the town of Hpruso in Karenni State against land grabs by the Burmese military by marching to the confiscated farmland in question to plough it.
