Regime soldiers have shot dead a man in a reportedly unprovoked attack in a village in jade-rich Hpakant Township, Kachin State. “There was no clash in the village…a man on a motorbike didn’t stop at the bridge, so they fired four bullets and killed him on the spot,” said an anonymous source from a nearby...

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The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) set fire to two excavators belonging to the leader of a People’s Militia Force (PMF) allied with the regime in Hpakant Township, Kachin State. On 23 May, a few days after the attack by KIA Brigade 2, Min Zin Thant, the leader of the PMF, called about 30 local gold...

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The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), one of Burma’s most powerful ethnic armed organisations (EAO), designated the People’s Militia Forces (PMFs), the Border Guard Forces (BGFs) and the political parties that have accepted the military regime as their enemies. “If the police were actually protecting the people and the PMFs were protecting their areas, we would...

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Displaced Lisu villagers are demanding that the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) release three youths the soldiers forcibly recruited in northern Shan State. According to an anonymous female source, armed Kokang troops dragged the youths – one is only 17 years old – out of the Pang Lawt internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp near...

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In Kalay Township, some 50,000 people displaced by a brutal clearance campaign by the Burma Army (BA) desperately need emergency food and medicine. Before the junta sent BA soldiers to attack resistance fighters and burn thousands of homes in late April, only 10,000 villagers in the township in Sagaing Region had been affected by the...

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The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) is boycotting peace talks organised by the regime-installed State Administration Council in Naypyitaw. According to KIO’s spokesperson, Col Naw Bu, the ethnic armed organisation (EAO) decided not to attend talks in the Southeast Asian nation’s capital because the regime doesn’t want to negotiate and has purposely failed to invite all...

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The Burma Army (BA) has begun fortifying its military camp near Alaw Bum, the strategic hilltop in Momauk Township that the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) recaptured from regime troops in March 2021. According to a local source, two trucks with cement bags, a vehicle carrying petroleum and a backhoe were delivered to their Shang Htung...

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People displaced by the conflict in Kachin State have decided to move from their camp, located on the premises of a church, to another place with the help of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC). ”We have been living there for a long time, but the problem is that the area is prone to flooding during...

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Two people were killed by the Burma Army (BA) after a shell struck a business in Hpakant Township, in Kachin State. According to a local familiar with the incident, Yon Gway, 50, the owner of Soung Yarthi Restaurant and Maung Myint, 45, were killed in Maw Pon, in the Lon Khin village tract, after the...

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At least ten Burma Army (BA) soldiers died in clashes with the All Burma Students’ Democratic Force (ABSDF) and a local branch of the People’s Defence Force (PDF) in Katha Township, Sagaing Region, a member of the PDF has told KNG. On Monday morning, Lt Thalika led the resistance fighters in a raid on 39...

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The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) will distribute land plots to farmers in Tanai Township as part of its poppy eradication programme in Kachin State’s Hukawng Valley, an area of Tanai Township where opium cultivation has long been a problem. According to an anonymous KIO officer working in the Shin Bwe Yang area, where the programme...

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Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) soldiers have shouted at and threatened villagers after they asked them to leave their camp for displaced people in Burma’s restive northern Shan State. Since early in the year, about 300 armed MNDAA soldiers have stayed at the Zup Awng internally displaced persons (IDPs), which is located outside of...

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The regime’s forces murdered 3 civilians and burnt down 81 houses in two villages in Burma’s Sagaing Region. According to a member of the Depayin People’s Defence Force PDF, on 19 April, a 100-strong column of the Burma Army (BA) killed two elderly women and burned down 17 houses in Mae Oeand tied up a...

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Residents of a village in Kachin State have told KNG that their water source has become discoloured after large-scale gold mining took place nearby following the military coup in Burma over a year ago. ”Since the gold mining started, it’s been very difficult to get clean water in our village. The water has become dirty...

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The junta-appointed court has postponed its decision on the prosecution of seven National League for Democracy (NLD) ministers charged under Article 55 of the Anti-Corruption Law. A member of the NLD central executive committee told the KNG that the decision on the case of Kachin State Chief Minister Dr Khet Awng and six ministers from...

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The regime has deployed hundreds of armed forces to two villages in Putao Township as part of a major offensive to wrestle control of the area in northern Kachin State from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). Locals confirmed to KNG that about 300 soldiers from two Burma Army (BA) columns have been sent to Tan...

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On Monday, Mytel, a major telecommunications company owned by the Burma Army (BA), partially restored internet connectivity in Hpakant Township after it had been shut down since August. However, youth in the township in Kachin State are still struggling to continue their education even after the internet was restored after 224 days of shutdown because...

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Villagers fear for their safety after the Burma Army (BA) showed up in their village in Waingmaw Township, which is also near Laiza, the de facto headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organisation, whose armed wing, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), is fighting the regime in Kachin State. Although the BA soldiers were no longer in...

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After a month without fighting, new clashes between the regime and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have forced villagers to once again seek shelter from the violence in Putao Township. “I think a column of the Burma Army (BA) entered the KIA area, which triggered the clashes,” said a man who wished to remain anonymous....

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Resistance fighters from the Indaw People’s Defence Force (PDF) attacked two regime checkpoints in Sagaing Region, killing at least four Burma Army soldiers (BA), according to their own accounts. A PDF officer told KNG that they attacked the checkpoints near Namma Hok Gyi in Indaw Township, which borders Mohnyin Township in Kachin State. He explained...

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Burma’s armed forces have burned down 219 homes in villages in Khin Oo Township, where thousands have fled from the regime’s offensives in the conflict with resistance groups in the Southeast Asian country. Last Friday, more than 1,000 people fled attacks on civilian property in Shar Lwin and Kalar Luu in Sagaing Region as the...

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The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) fought the Burma Army (BA) in the Mongpaw area of Muse District in northern Shan State, with BA shelling damaging at least two houses in nearby Mang Nawng Kawng. A man told KNG on condition of anonymity that a blind elderly man left to fend for himself in the village...

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The people of Myitkyina have taken the law into their own hands by punishing illicit drug users in a ward in the capital of Kachin State. An anonymous male source told KNG that residents from Rampu are caning drug addicts as part of an anti-drug action to tackle the problem after drug use and thefts...

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The regime’s armed forces have arrested several small-scale gold prospectors along the Irrawaddy River, rather than large companies using heavy machinery to mine for the precious metal, causing most of the environmental destruction in Kachin State. Last Friday, the armed forces arrested five villagers from Alam in Myitkyina Township. A member of the Group for...

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A civilian resistance group ambushed Burma Army (BA) soldiers providing security for a riverboat carrying food and military equipment in Katha Township, Sagaing Region. According to an officer from the local People’s Defense Force (PDF), they attacked the regime twice with landmines on Thursday. He said they attacked 50 ground troops on the riverbank near...

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Civilians don’t have enough to eat after the fighting prevented them from farming and donors bringing aid to the camp for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp in Mansi Township, where they’ve been living for almost a decade. A man in charge of the more than 1,000 IDPs living in the Kachin Baptist Congress camp...

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The leader of the Kachin National Congress (KNC) has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment after being convicted by a court in Naypyitaw of sedition under Article 505 (a) of Burma’s Penal Code. KNC members expressed remorse after learning of Dr M Kawn La’s conviction on Wedesday at the Zabuthiri Township courthouse. “As a party...

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The Burma Army (BA) has launched a clearance campaign to drive the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) out of an area where it plans to build a strategic road from its camp in Waingmaw Township to the Chinese border. For almost a week, the KIA has been fighting with BA soldiers on Falap Hill near Laiza,...

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Kachin civilians displaced by the conflict in Putao Township who are sick and without food, have appealed to church groups for help to return safely to their villages. A man from N’se Yang, who requested anonymity, said Burma Army (BA) soldiers staying in his village and in Sumpyi Yang for the past two weeks have...

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A freelance reporter for Kachin News Group and Kachin Wave, detained by the regime for over a year after being charged with sedition, is still waiting for his case to be heard in court. Nawng Yoe’s friend told KNG that the court hearing was delayed because the judge was busy and the plaintiff, a police...

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China has closed a watermelon market in a town in Yunnan Province after a cluster of transmissions was detected. A business person told KNG on condition of anonymity that Chinese authorities have closed Wanding, also called Wanting, and the city of Ruili, to which the border town belongs, since last Wednesday. He said 23 people...

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More than 70 people are in urgent need of emergency aid after a fire tragically destroyed all 11 houses in their remote village in Putao District, including the buildings where they stored their rice. They’re struggling to survive after losing everything in the fire, explained San Lu Ramseng, who’s part of a team of volunteers...

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Burma’s military regime has cut phone internet services in the majority of townships in Sagaing Region timed with its massive clearance campaign that began last autumn against resistance groups fighting to overthrow the dictatorship in the Southeast Asian country. A man from Katha Township, who wishes to remain anonymous, told KNG that the cessation of...

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Putao residents can breathe a little easier after the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) announced that the motorway from Myitkyina to the remote town in northern Kachin State will reopen on 2 March for trucks carrying food. After the highway was closed for a week as the KIA, backed by a local People’s Defence Force, fought...

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The Burma Army (BA) arrested three people in Katha on Saturday and seized their properties the following day, forcing their families to leave their houses in the town in Sagaing Region. A local source, who didn’t want his name published, told KNG that the regime suspects they’re involved in a bomb attack on a government...

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KNG spoke to one of the 5,000 civilians forced to flee recent fighting between the military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), backed by a People’s Defence Force (PDF), in Putao Township, where many people now live in jungle camps in northern Kachin State. Can you provide an update about the internally displaced persons (IDP)...

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At least 15 people were killed by Burma Army (BA) artillery fire on Friday morning that destroyed almost all houses in a village in Burma’s Sagaing Region, a local source told KNG on condition that his name not be mentioned. Namayit residents began fleeing when the shelling started, he said. “There’s still a BA column...

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The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) has promised to do something against a group posing as the People’s Defence Forces to extort money from civilians in Myitkyina and Mogaung townships. According to a KIO officer in Myitkyina District, the fake group calling themselves PDF (MIS) has been threatening shopkeepers, asking them to send them money or...

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A couple on a motorcycle were shot dead by the Burma Army (BA) while fleeing fighting with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) about 10 miles from Putao town in northern Kachin State. During an ambush on a BA camp, the KIA and People’s Defence Force (PDF) killed scores of junta soldiers when they raided their...

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After shopkeepers have stopped selling the regime’s beer products in Myitkyina as part of boycott organised by the Kachin Independence Army, Burma Army soldiers (BA) in civilian clothes have tightened security in the Kachin State capital. According to a man who spoke to KNG on condition of anonymity, the regime’s forces are mainly targeting youths....

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Facing shortages, the Burma Army (BA) called on the Kawnglanghpu People’s Militia Force (PMF) to provide fighters during the conflict against Kachin armed groups in Putao and Machanbaw townships in northern Kachin State. Although the local source who told KNG this information off the record couldn’t say how many PMF soldiers have arrived in the...

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The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacked the junta’s armed forces with the support of the People’s Defence Force (PDF) after 200 soldiers from Infantry Battalion 40 approached the Kachin fighters stationed in Hopin sub township in Mohnyin District. According to a KIA officer on the frontline, the junta soldiers entered the area of Battalion 41...

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More than a thousand people fled aerial attacks on Thursday when junta gunships attacked in Putao Township after the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the People’s Defence Force (PDF) captured an army camp near the village a day earlier. Everyone from Sumpyi Yang had to flee into the jungle when the three gunships attacked around...

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On Thursday, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the People’s Defence Force (PDF) killed a military officer and a police officer and wounded others in an attack on their camp in Mohnyin Township, Kachin State. The Kachin groups attacked the camp with heavy weapons at around 4am, burned it down and withdrew an hour later,...

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Fighting has escalated in Katha Township, Sagaing Region, despite the regime’s attempts to wrestle control of the area from armed civilian groups resisting the dictatorship. On 1 February, the one-year anniversary of the coup, an explosion rocked the municipal office in Katha town at 6:30am with another blast happening nearby, an anonymous source told KNG....

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A policeman killed a seven-year-old after firing indiscriminately following a bomb attack on a police camp in Myitkyina on the one-year anniversary of the coup – a day when many people in Burma took part in a ‘Silent Strike’ against the dictatorship. “The child was lying in his room and the bullet passed through the...

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Kachin sugarcane farmers in Mai Ja Yang are at risk of losing profits due to lingering restrictions on exports to China. The Chinese government has opened the Loije checkpoint between the border town controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and China, which in theory should mean relief for farmers. But neither Kachin nor Chinese...

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After China asked ethnic armed groups along the Burmese border to stop fighting during the 2022 Winter Olympics and Lunar New Year in February and the 2022 Winter Paralympics in March, the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), whose armed wing, the Kachin Independence Army, is fighting the regime, agreed in principle but also issued a statement...

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The sale of beer products belonging to the military has dropped drastically since the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), whose military wing, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), is fighting the regime, banned them completely in the areas of Kachin State it controls. A KIO officer from Myitkyina District said that after the announcement of the ban...

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The family and friends of Maran Lu Ra and Tangbau Hkawn Nan Tsin want the courts to launch an investigation into who raped and murdered the volunteer Kachin teachers seven years ago in northern Shan State. “We still have not got justice for them until today. This makes me very depressed, but I will wait...

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