As aid dwindles, Kachin IDPs wait for peace
Some 40,000 displaced Kachins have now spent five years in camps in remote, KIA-controlled mountains, where humanitarian aid deliveries have dwindled.
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Villagers flee Burma army offensive in Arakan State
The displaced villagers also claimed that the Burmese army has been forcing local people to act as porters.
No quick return for displaced Shan families
One hundred and twenty kilometres from Lashio, Burmese forces are bombing the positions of the Shan State Army-North in the town of Mongshu.
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Aid Kachin Lead Story News Refugees
Floods, mud, govt preventing aid to Kachin IDPs, says church
Hundreds of refugees in northern Kachin State are not receiving humanitarian aid, according to the Kachin Baptist Council (KBC).
Arakan Education Lead Story News
Access to education ‘minimal’ in Arakan camps: official
Only eight percent of displaced Muslim children in western Burma’s Arakan State have access to secondary education, according to a senior education coordinator.
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Arakan displaced running out of food
Muslims and Buddhists who lost their homes and livelihoods due to conflict in Burma’s Arakan state, are quickly running out of food, the World Food Programme warns.
Living in Limbo
Many displaced residents of the Meikhtila violence last March feel as though they have been forgotten.
After being displaced by war, residents relocate amid flooding
About 800 internally displaced residents who have been forced to flee amid fighting between government forces and the KIA, now have to relocate again due to flooding in Kachin state
Forced displacement soars in Burma
Border aid group says levels of displacement of people in eastern Burma higher than any year since data collection began in 2002
