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Bloodstained Gateways: escalating SAC abuses in northern Burma pave the way for BRI expansion

October 9, 2023

KWAT documentation shows an escalation in attacks and abuses…

Deadly reprisals: regime steps up attacks on civilians in retaliation for conflict losses in northern Burma

June 16, 2021

This briefing paper provides an update of human rights violations…

The UN Must Establish a Mechanism towards Accountability for Gross and Systematic Human Rights Violations in Myanmar

June 28, 2018

28 June 2018 Yesterday at the 38th session of the UN…

Enough is enough! World must act to end Burma Army’s devastating war on Kachin

June 9, 2018

June 9, 2018 Seven years ago today, civil war resumed…

Myanmar: Drop Defamation Cases Against Kachin Anti-War Protest Organizers Trial against three protesters continues today

May 21, 2018

(YANGON, May 21, 2018) – The Government of Myanmar…

Burma Army commits war crimes against Kachin IDPs: blocking access to refuge, using as human shields and minesweepers, indiscriminate shelling, looting

May 15, 2018

May 15, 2018 Urgent update by the Kachin Women’s Association…

Myanmar: UN Security Council must act to end ongoing crimes against humanity in northern Burma

May 4, 2018

4 May 2018 We welcome the UNSC delegation’s historic…

Latest Burma Army war crimes in Kachin State highlight urgent need to end military-to-military ties with Burma

August 21, 2017

Press release by KWAT On August 11, 2017, hundreds of Burma…

Six years since resumption of Civil War in Kachin

June 9, 2017

9th June 2017 Children born on the day civil war reignited…

About Us

The Burmese military has ruled and waged civil war within the territory of the union of Burma for many decades. As a result, Kachin and non-Burman ethnicities have been enduring severe hardship, such as impoverishment, and lack of access to health and education. In 1994, a ceasefire agreement was signed between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO/A) and the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), but did not lead to any political negotiation. Instead, the SPDC took advantage of the agreement to start large-scale extraction of natural resources from the territory of Kachin State.