Myanmar News » Kachin News Myanmar » Kachin » History: How Myanmar’s Railways Reflect the Nation’s Uneasy History
A new book highlights the role that the country’s rail network has played in the making – and unmaking – of a conflict-torn country. A gate lies across the tracks at the Gokteik viaduct in Myanmar’s ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: Myanmar Military Launches Air Strikes on Kachin, Rakhine, Shan States
2025 seems set to continue last year’s sharp increase in the number of retaliatory air and artillery attacks on resistance-held territories. Myanmar’s military junta is ramping up its air attacks on ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: In northern Myanmar, Kachin rebels claim attacks on army outposts as offensive gathers pace
BANGKOKBANGKOK — A rebel group in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin said its troops on Thursday attacked more than 10 army outposts along the main road to the state capital of Myitkyina, increasing ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: Is Myanmar’s Kachin Conflict Really Over?
The visit on Wednesday by the United Nations’ special envoy to Myanmar, Vijay Nambiar, to Laiza, the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organization, is a positive sign that the conflict in ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: Tracing the History of Myanmar’s Rights and Democracy Movement Part 1: National Perspectives
The history of Myanmar’s democracy and rights movement after 1988 is colorful and fascinating—so why has it not been written? asks David Scott Mathieson.
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: In Myanmar’s Kachin state, local priests carry on legacy of Columbans
A woman and children are pictured in the predominantly Christian region of Myanmar’s Kachin state, which has witnessed sporadic fighting for decades. Renewed fighting since 2011 between the military ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: Myanmar Kachin Baptist leaders jailed for ‘helping’ rebels
Two Baptist leaders were sentenced to prison in Myanmar Friday on charges of supporting ethnic minority rebels in the war-torn northeast, in a trial slammed by rights groups as a cover-up for alleged ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: The Importance of Kachin State to Myanmar’s Revolution
Four years on, Myanmar’s civil war has spread to all 14 regions and states, as well as the major cities of Mandalay, Naypyidaw, and Yangon. According to the analysis of the Special Advisory Council ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: Ethnic guerrillas in Myanmar say they shot down helicopter
BANGKOKBANGKOK — An ethnic rebel group in northern Myanmar said it shot down a government military helicopter on Monday during heavy fighting over a strategic position. The claim by the Kachin ...
News Myanmar » Kachin » History: In northern Myanmar, Kachin rebels claim attacks on army outposts as offensive gathers pace
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BANGKOK (AP) — A rebel group in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin said its troops on Thursday attacked more than 10 army outposts ...