Three people were killed after a violent scuffle erupted following a dispute between a fishery operator and locals in Irrawaddy division’s Kyonpyaw township
Month: September 2012
Police investigate executions committed by student army
Burma’s police have begun investigating the alleged execution of rebel fighters that occurred at the All-Burmese Students’ Democratic Front’s northern command centre in Kachin state in 1991
Kachin groups invite Suu Kyi to visit camps for displaced
In an open letter to Aung San Suu Kyi, 23 Kachin organisations have asked the democracy icon to travel to Maijayang to visit camps that house people displaced by the…
Farmers, gold miners square off over land dispute
A stand-off between local farmers in Mandalay division’s Thabeikkyin township and a private mining company is intensifying after rumours are circulating that gold deposits reside in the area