Migrants totaling 100 arrested
Network Media Group 14 January 2008. For the third time this year over 100 Rohingiya migrants from
Arakan state, western Burma were arrested today morning.
Written by Khun Aung Myat
12 December 2007.
Large quantities of raw opium and heroin were seized in Southern
Shan State but the news did not appear in newspapers because the
case was related to high ranking military officials, said a
report released today by Ethnic Youth Network (Burma).
The Burma Media Association (BMA) in exile has condemned the
military junta run media for telling people not to believe news
broadcast by foreign radio stations like the BBC, RFA, and VOA.
School teacher arrested for
photographing monks in Myitkyina
Network Media Group 23 September 2007.
Over 200 monks and local people staged a protest march for the
first time in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state at mid-day
today in support of the nation-wide monks' demonstration. A
school teacher who was taking photographs of the marching monks
was arrested.
Land mines prevent
villagers from working in farms
Written by Aung Moe Myint
07 August 2007.
Local villagers are fining it extremely difficult to work in the
farms because of land mines planted around Nan Mahuu village,
Loi Lin Lay ward and Loi Kaw Township, said a local.
Armed struggle only
means to solve political imbroglio in Burma: SNPLF
Written by Khun
Aung Myat.
02 July 2007.
'There is no way to solve the
stalemate in Burmese politics except through armed struggle',
said a statement by the splinter Red Pa-O or Shan Nationalities
People's Liberation Front (SNPLF) which broke a 13-year
ceasefire agreement with the military junta today.
