Kachin politicians concerned about UN funded census

KSDP leader Dr. Tu Ja (left) and KDP leader Awng Hkam

In an interview with the Kachin News Group (KNG) this week, Dr. Manam Tu Ja, head of the Kachin State Democracy Party (KSDP) and former vice-president No. 2 of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), warned that the national census could destabilise Burma's peace process by causing further tensions.

Myitkyina IDP camps suffer serious food shortage

A IDP camp in Jan Mai Kawng Baptist Church in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state.

Internally displaced people’s camps in the Myitkyina area are undergoing a serious food shortage because the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has failed to deliver food to some of the camps this month, according to local aid workers.

2 KIA killed fighting in Southern Kachin state

KIA troops in Kachin state, northern Burma.

An officer from the Kachin Independence Army and his subordinate were shot and killed by government troops near the Nam Lim Pa refugee camp in southern Kachin state on November 23, according to KIA colleagues.  The incident occurred whilst KIA forces in the area are under orders not to strike at government forces.

KIO’s Gun Maw will arrive in Chaing Mai for talks

Maj-Gen Sumlut Gun Maw, Vice Chief of Staff of KIA took press conference at Rangoon on Nov. 18.

High ranking Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) leader Major General Sumlut Gun Maw will arrive in Chiang Mai later today to attend further talks between the government and Burma’s rebel groups.  Representatives of at least 11 Burmese political parties including the National League for Democracy (NLD) are also expected to attend the talks which are being organized by the government controlled Myanmar Peace Center (MPC).

KIA orders troops not to respond after Burma army captures IDP camp

A frontline camp of KIA soldiers in Waingmaw township, eastern Kachin state in northern Burma.

Senior officials at the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) Laiza headquarters issued instructions on Tuesday ordering troops in the field not to respond militarily to the Burma army’s recent capture of the Nam Lim Pa internally displaced people camp in southern Kachin state, the Kachin News Group has learned.

Burma army kills Kachin farmer in Mansi township

Two Burmese soldiers of Light Infantry Division No. 33 stand on Myitkyina-Kambaiti road in eastern Kachin state.

Maraw Gun, an unarmed Kachin farmer was shot and killed by Burma army troops when he returned home to his village in Manje (also Mansi) township in southern Kachin state for the rice harvest on November 14, the man’s relatives tell the Kachin News Group (KNG).

Burma army uses aid convoy to captures KIO controlled IDP camp

Burmese government soldiers.

Burma army troops took control of an internally displaced people's camp in southern Kachin state from the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) on Saturday November 16th by taking advantage of an aid convoy which traveled to the area, according to KIO officials.

Burma army soldier accused of raping 7-year-old Kachin girl

Burma Army soldiers in Myitkyina the capital of Kachin state, northern Burma.

A Burma army soldier based in Shan state has been accused of raping a 7-year-old Kachin girl.  Family members of the alleged victim say the incident took place in the girl's home in Muse township on November 11.  The alleged perpetrator is a man named Ko Win Htwe from the Theinni (or Hsenwi)-based Light Infantry Battalion No. 323, the young girls' relatives tell the Kachin News Group.

“Ethnic Armed Revolutionary” talks end early in Myitkyina

Talks between Burma's government and 16 armed rebel groups including the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) ended in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina on Tuesday without a breakthrough. The talks ended earlier than expected, according to reports from Myitkyina.

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Photo News: Oct-30-2013 Burma's Ethic Armed Summit Laiza

Burma's ethnic armed groups begin ceasefire summit in Laiza

Eight Kachin women with different cultural suits at opening ceremony of Burma's ethnic armed group conference in Laiza, the capital of Kachin Independence Organization.

Zau Awng, Laiza — The historic summit of Burma's ethnic armed groups focusing on a government-planned national ceasefire pact began on Wednesday in Laiza, headquarters of Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) in Kachin state, northern Burma.

UN “deeply concerned” as fighting worsens in Southern Kachin state

The United Nations is “deeply concerned” about the situation facing civilians in southern Kachin state's Mansi Township as clashes between the Kachin Independence Organization's (KIO) armed wing and the military continued in the area. The fighting threatens the safety of large numbers of internally displaced people (IDP) who have been sheltering in Nam Lim Pa and Mung Ding Pa villages.

UN's Nambiar fails to help Kachin trapped by army

Mr. Nambiar

At an October 11th meeting several senior officials from the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) sat down with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy to Burma, Vijay Nambiar, to discuss the fate of a group of villagers trapped in the far north of the state. During the meeting the KBC representatives asked Nambiar and the UN to assist in the evacuation of 53 villagers from Putao District's Nhka Ga village, according to KBC officials.