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Rights groups call on govt to probe case of missing Kachin pastors
Human rights organisations have called on the government to investigate the disappearance of two Kachin pastors in northern Shan State.
UN envoy Lee hears of unsolved Kachin murder cases
Yanghee Lee is on a 12-day fact-finding visit to Burma to assess developments within various human rights situations across the country.
UN special rapporteur denied visits to Kachin State conflict sites
Yanghee Lee was denied access to conflict-wracked Hpakant and Waignmaw townships in Kachin State this week as she undertakes her fifth visit to Burma in her capacity as UN special rapporteur on the country’s human rights situation.
2 jade miners killed in Hkamti landslide
The two men had been sifting through debris on the site, searching for leftover fragments of jade, when a landslide buried them under rubble.
Thousands of Red Shan march for self-rule
The demonstrators chanted slogans, mostly focused on the creation of a Tai Leng state and a federal union in Burma.
Cop who pulled gun at meeting apologises
Soe Zaw Zaw, vice-commander of the Combat Police Battalion based in Hpakant, has apologised for brandishing his gun at a meeting with members of the public.
