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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…

Appeal for the immediate release of Kachin farmer Nlam Bawk Naw, arbitrarily arrested on the Ledo Road by the Burma Army on June 20, 2017

August 8, 2017

Date: 8th August, 2017 Press release by Kachin CSOs Kachin…

Six years since resumption of Civil War in Kachin

June 9, 2017

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

Without Justice there can be no Peace

May 24, 2017

Civil society expectations from the 21st Century Panglong Peace…

UN Human Rights Council Decides To Urgently Dispatch An International Fact Finding Mission To Burma/Myanmar

March 24, 2017

(Geneva, 24 March 2017) – Today, in a landmark decision,…

ND-Burma Statement on the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims

March 24, 2017

On the International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning…

Statement from the Ninth Congress of the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand

February 24, 2017

24th February 2017 The Ninth Congress of the Kachin…

ND-Burma 2016 Report Finds Dramatic Increase Human Rights Violations

February 8, 2017

8 February 2017For Immediate Press Release ND-Burma today…

Kachin women expose ongoing Burma Army abuses under NLD government

November 15, 2016

Date: 2016 November 15 Press release by the Kachin Women’s…

KWAT’s 17th anniversary denouncing escalating Burma Army offensives to seize control of Kachin State’s natural resources

September 9, 2016

09 September 20016 On this occasion of the 17th anniversary…

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.