Accidents Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Burmese mahouts presumed dead after landslide in Chiang Mai
“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.”
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.
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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.