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Villagers living and dying for the army

In order to escape several abuses and forced labor by the Burmese military, villagers in Southern Shan State have been fleeing to the Thai-Burma border, according to SHAN sources from the border.

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  • Published: 2008-09-17

Burma Army continues violating child rights

Despite international pressure on the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to stop recruiting and using child soldiers, the SPDC has been continuously violating child rights to recruit or use child soldiers in its army, according to a report from Sino-Burma border.

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  • Published: 2008-09-12

To save Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, A Courageous Freedom Fighter

In the last two centuries unfair treatment of society by other groups or by their government has improved greatly. This has been due to campaigners and freedom fighters of the world. They resisted and rebelled against dictatorial governments and fought for liberty and freedom. In the face of danger and suffering they have changed society not only in which they lived but in the entire world.

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  • Published: 2008-09-09

Cure for cold becoming rage of speed producers

Shortage of “Ice,” the crystal precursor used for producing methamphetamine pills, has driven clandestine chemists along the Thai-Burma border frantic enough to look for drugs used for relief of cold and cough in northern Thailand, according to several sources.

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  • Published: 2008-09-09

Ceasefire groups beef up security

While the Burmese military have been instructing its militia forces to expand, some ceasefire groups such as Shan State Army (SSA) North and the United Wa State Army (UWSA) have also been beefing up their security after the May 10 referendum, according to informed sources from central Shan State.

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  • Published: 2008-09-08

South Ossetia and Abkhazia: Endorsing rights of self-determination or staging a comeback as superpower?

From the outset, Russia's conflict with Georgia and recognition of its small breakaway territories as independent states might look like the replay of classical clash between territorial integrity of a sovereign state and humanitarian intervention to divert ethnic cleansing or genocide.

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  • Published: 2008-09-06

Pundit: Ethnicity and democratization can go together

Ethnic nationalism can, under the right conditions, work for rather than against democracy’s rise and consolidation, says a professor from Princeton University in the latest issue of Journal of Democracy.

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  • Published: 2008-09-04

Ceasefire groups pressured to surrender within 2009

Regional commanders said all ceasefire groups including local militias must surrender the arms in 2009, according to SHAN sources.

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  • Published: 2008-09-03

People in Shan State forced to join local militias

The Burma Army has been forcing villagers in Shan State to join pro-junta local militia forces, according to reliable sources.

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  • Published: 2008-09-02

ENC: Rigged election results won’t make lawful regime

The legitimacy of the new government that will emerge after the 2010 general elections will not be “bought by coercion, trickery or bribery”, declares the statement of the border-based Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC) following its 3-day conference, 26-28 August.

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  • Published: 2008-09-01

SSA-N leader denied eye treatment

The leader of the Shan State Army (SSA) North and Chairman of the Shan State Peace Council, Maj-Gen Hso Ten, who had received 106 year jail sentences on 3 November 2005 along with other elected Shan leaders, has been suffering from eye problem, but he was denied eye check, according to the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), the party that won the 1990 elections in Shan state.

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  • Published: 2008-08-30

Research paper: Drug free Asean by 2015 unrealistic

The latest report by a veteran research team from Europe that came out Saturday, 23 August, has concluded that the Asean target to make the Southeast Asian region drug-free by 2015 is “obviously unattainable.”

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  • Published: 2008-08-27

Harn Yawnghwe: UN efforts deserve support

Current UN operations in Burma, despite varied outcomes, are worth solid support from the people of Burma whose needs are such any assistance, big or small, is a blessing, according to Brussels-based Burma activist Harn Yawnghwe.

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  • Published: 2008-08-25

Junta commander: Thailand violating Burmese sovereignty

In a public speech given to the local officials and people yesterday at a location in Shan State’s Mongton township, opposite Chiangmai, the Burma Army commander of the Triangle Region Command had charged Thailand of “violating the territorial integrity” of Burma, according to sources on the border.

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  • Published: 2008-08-19

Continued human rights violation in Shan State

Villagers from Kehsi township, Southern Shan State, were forced to porter and one had been killed by the Burma Army during portering, according to sources who fled to the border.

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  • Published: 2008-08-13
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