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In response to charges by Naypyitaw’s information minister Kyaw Hsan on 12 August, the Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) issued a statement yesterday urging all parties concerned to revive the Panglong Agreement signed in 1...
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General / Thai-Burma Relations
“The Life of The Buddha,” the most wellknown work of the late Burmese painter U Ba Kyi (1903-2000), in Thai version, has been on sale in Chiangmai since April.
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Following a surprise attack on soldiers by Shan State Army on 11 August, the Burma Army saturated a village near by with mortar shells, wounding at least 13 people including 3 women and 3 children, according to sources from Mongyai township, Shan State No...
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An unidentified armed group active in Kunhing township, between the township seat and Takaw Bridge on the Salween, had released the 3 Chinese engineers and 1 interpreter detained since May, according to Shan State Army (SSA) South.
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A former classmate in Taunggyi has a message for me, conveyed through a mutual friend who recently returned from the Shan State capital I used to call home. “You’ve got to say something about Tin Aung Myint Oo,” he said. “He isn’t the person we ...
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The second visit made by 4 military planes around 01:00 yesterday, 9 August, to the Burma Army-Shan State Army (SSA) North war zone in Kehsi township, had sent sleeping villagers into bomb shelters, according to SSA and local sources.
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In response to the open letter by 23 parliamentarians on 8 August which was published by The New Light of Myanmar yesterday, Lt-Gen Yawdserk, leader of the Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), said he was keeping an open door fo...
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5 days after withdrawing from the No Man’s Land between it and Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA)’s frontline outposts, the Burma Army is returning with a likelihood of remaining there for a long haul, according to local and Mongla ...
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Due to continual attacks by the Shan State Army (SSA), Burma Army units on the frontline are facing morale and disciplinary problems rising out of the shortage of rations, according to local and SSA sources.
Among those seized by the SSA included rice, ...
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A 3 day Festival of Indigenous Peoples in Thailand 2011, in honor of the International Day for World’s Indigenous Peoples, is being held in Chiangmai, 7-9 August.
It is participated by 36 ethnic groups including many of those familiar to Burma, a patro...
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Though the bulk of the besieging Burma Army troops have been withdrawn since 29 July, trucks carrying rice and other supplies have continued to arrive at outposts facing Wanhai, the Shan State Army (SSA) North’s key base in Kehsi township in central Sha...
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The Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP), third largest winning in the November elections, submitted a petition to the lower house speaker on 31 July calling for peace talks and cessation of human rights abuses, according to the party leadership.
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Two things always came to my mind when I think about Ta Keley (aka Ta Kelei), a Karen from Toungoo who became a top leader of the PaOs after he came to the Shan State with his brothers Special and Tamosi in the early 1950s....
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Troops besieging areas controlled by Mongla-based National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) are pulling out from at least 2 locations, according to NDAA sources.
At Mong Fan, south of Hsop Lwe, where the Lwe tributary joins the Mekong, only about 50 Burm...
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General / History
Sao Htun Yin Nawngmawn: One-armed general
Shans today know very little about Sao Htun Yin Nawngmawn (1912-1950) whose honors conferred by the British include CBE, MBE, DSO and IDSM. Some may have heard of another one-armed general Mohe...
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Interview with deported US woman by Garrett Kostin
A former Fulbright scholar who has studied human rights in Guatemala, Ghana, and Liberian refugee camps, Joy Agner originally came to Chiang Mai to research accessible tourism options in Thailand. Howe...
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216 youths have enlisted with the Shan State Army (SSA) “in order to sacrifice their lives for the country and nation”, reported Tai Youth Campaign (TYC) Facebook yesterday.
The voluntary signing up took place during the 10-day Nampook battle around ...
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The expected signing of a ceasefire agreement between its ally Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) government does not necessarily mean the Shan State Progress Party / Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), be...
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Adversities faced by the Tatmadaw’s ordinary soldiers and junior officers, especially after the recent reduction of supplies to their family members, have hit home prompting responsible commanding officers to tend resignations, according to a report fro...
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The Shan State Army (SSA) North was yesterday, given another olive branch since April by the Burma Amry through two Buddhist monks acting as emissaries, according to SSA spokesman Maj Sai La this morning.
“We were asked by the monks if we desired peace...
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