Latest information: one of four abductees is released now.
3 June 2011 The Shan State Army’s strategic base in Tangyan township, 7 miles south of Mong Gao, attacked from 05:30 up to the time of this reporting. The Burma Army attackers are using chemical weapons, which on explosion, cause dizziness and nausea, claim the defenders. (SHAN) The SSA withdrew at noon, according to Col Perng Fa, Head of SSA liaison team – Editor
This policy was adopted by Burman general, Ne Win, in 1962 and it has been more and more practiced by Burman military leaders, the successors of Ne Win.
A senior officer of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) said, on condition of anonymity, successive Burman military leaders from Ne Win’s era to date, keep the ideology that peace can be restored in the country only after all the different ethnic identities are dissolved into one Burman identity. Continue reading “ethnic politicians: will not change Burman nationalism policy”
US Sen John McCain said he expects the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to be allowed to return to Burma after discussing the issue with Burmese government ministers in Naypyidaw on Wednesday. Speaking at a press conference in Rangoon on Friday morning, McCain said the return of the ICRC, which routinely provided health care to prisoners, is the “first step in developing US-Burma relations.
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