Kachin youth concert raises relief funds in Hpakant jade area

Kachin youth preform for a relief concert held in the Hpakant jade mining area of Kachin state on May 15 and 16.

HPAKANT, Burma --- A two-day concert held last week in the Hpakant jade mining area of Kachin state successfully raised funds for the Kachin relief effort, according to local youth leaders who organized the event.

Burma soldiers gang-rape women in Kachin Church

48 year old grandmother KWAT says was gang raped and held for three days by soldiers in a church near Pangwa.

A group of Burma army soldiers tortured and then gang-raped a 48-year-old Kachin woman for three days in her village church northwest of Pang Wa (Pangwa) beginning May 1, according to the Kachin Women's Association of Thailand (KWAT) citing interviews with the victim and a local villager who was forced to watch the assault.

UN chief calls for end to Kachin conflict

KIO's Chairman Lanyaw Zawng Hra (left) and Burmese President Thein Sein

Speaking at a press briefing in New York last Thursday a spokesman for Secretary General Ban Ki Moon declared that the head of the UN calls on all parties involved in the Kachin conflict “to cease offensives and to find a peaceful resolution to the ongoing conflict there”.

KIO urges Ban's UN intervene in Kachin conflict

KIO's Chairman Lanyaw Zawng Hra

In an open letter sent to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon earlier this week the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) called on the UN to take an active role in bringing about an end to the Kachin conflict which began in June of last year when Burma army troops attacked KIO positions, ending a 17-year ceasefire.

4 Burma army soldiers killed in Shan state clash

A KIA sniper and frontline base in Northern Shan State.

Four soldiers from the Burma army were killed yesterday during a clash with troops from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in northern Shan state, said KIA officers at the frontline.

May 15 KIO Chairman's letter to UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

KACHIN INDEPENDENCE ORGANIZATION

15 May, 2012
His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
Unite d Nation Headquarters
NewYork, NY 10017, USA

KIA pushes back Burmese Army troops from Laiza headquarters

KIA troops celebrated its 48th anniversary of Kachin Revolution Day in Laiza headquarters on Feb. 5, 2009.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) troops pushed back Burmese Army soldiers from its Laiza headquarters on Thursday, seizing many arms and field artillery, said frontline sources.

RFA Kachin TV Program; November 2nd week, 2011

KIA withdraws from Kambaiti Road stronghold

The China's reconstruction of Myitkyina-Kambaiti road was completed on April 26, 2007.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) withdrew yesterday from its stronghold on the Myitkyina-Kambaiti Road after Burmese Army troops resorted to heavy and continuous artillery fire, said local people.