Burmese government troops are still committing a litany of human rights abuses in Shan State, according to Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN), a Thailand-based NGO which recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Burma.
A scholar attending a meeting on Sunday, 16 December, in Chiangmai where a Chin leader was presenting a report on the latest agreement signed between the Chin National Front (CNF) and the Union Peacemaking Work Committee (UPWC) after a 3-day negotiation on 9 December, details of the said deal showed what the armed movements could achieve under present circumstances and the challenges that they would still need to overcome.
Pu Zing Cung, the secretary general of the Chin National Front (CNF), said that Chin unity first happened during the Fallam Assembly in 1948, while recently speaking at a public consultation meeting in Falam Town, Chin state, Burma.
A planned industrial project will threaten the environment and health of thousands of people in Rakhine State as well as destroying Burma’s second largest mangrove forest, according to a report titled “Danger Zone” which was released this week by Arakan Oil Watch, an environmental NGO in Burma.
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