The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) held an ethnic conference in Thailand from 14 to 16 September to draw up a political strategy for the peace process between armed ethnic groups and the Myanmar government.
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 37 Rohingyas on the Burma-Bangladesh border on 18 September and drove them back into Burma later the same day, according to BGB officials.
A Kachin group in the US said it would boycott Aung San Suu Kyi’s Congressional award ceremony on Wednesday, while asking her to speak out and use her influence to help solve the Kachin conflict with the Burmese government.
Aung San Suu Kyi said she doesn't fear the Burmese army taking over the government “too much,” but the reforms over the past year are not yet “irreversible.”
On her first full day in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Aung San Suu Kyi said she supported easing the remaining US economic sanctions on her country, as lawmakers reportedly are planning to rescind import sanctions sometimes after the US elections.
After more than six weeks under custody, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) released the 20 Shan State Army (SSA) ‘South’ fighters, according to Shan and Thai sources.
Around 100 Arakanese people welcomed and received the well-known historian Dr. Aye Chan at Yangon airport on the 15th of September when he returned to Burma to attend a conference in Yangon entitled “National Identity and Citizenship in 21st Century Myanmar”.
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