Armed conflict in Shan State - displacement, mass exoduses and the humanitarian situation

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Title: IDPs (Category archive from BurmaNet News)
Description: Articles from this category from BurmaNet News)
Source/publisher: Burma Rivers Network
Date of entry/update: 2016-03-01
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Language: English
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Title: Thousands of Rakhine State IDPs Are ‘Really Suffering’ Without Aid, Civil Society Says
Description: "Of some 60,000 people internally displaced (IDPs) in Rakhine State due to armed conflict, civil society organizations say that those in some townships have been unable to get humanitarian assistance. According to the Rakhine Ethnics Congress (REC), more than 3,000 IDPs in Mrauk-U and 1,000 in Ponnagyun, as well as a number of vulnerable communities in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships are in need of emergency aid. “IDPs in Phakywe and Ahtet Myat Lae in Ponnagyun Township and Sinbaw Kai and Chawmi in Mrauk-U Township, and on the east bank of Mayu River in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships have been suffering because the road cannot be used in the rainy season, and the army has blocked the waterway. So they haven’t gotten any assistance. They are really suffering,” secretary of REC Zaw Zaw Tun told NMG. In Buthidaung Township, there are nearly 2,360 IDPs in five communities, and more than 630 at two sites in Maungdaw. “IDP camps which are located in the area of the army’s active movements as well as those far from municipal areas—these IDPs have suffered more than others,” Zaw Zaw Tun said. Local sources told NMG that civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations have provided assistance to displaced people in areas closer to towns and where roads remain open and accessible..."
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Source/publisher: "BNI Multimedia Group"
Date of publication: 2019-08-27
Date of entry/update: 2019-08-27
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Title: Humanitarian Bulletin - Myanmar Issue 7: December 2015 (English and Burmese)
Description: In this issue: 2015 displacement in Kachin and Shan... 2,000 still displaced in southern Shan... Winter needs for IDPs in Sumprabum.... Cash assistance following floods... Providing access to reproductive healthcare... Ending recruitment of child soldiers.....HIGHLIGHTS: • Around 100,000 people were newly displaced in Kachin and Shan states in 2015; about 90 per cent have since returned home... • Almost 2,000 people remain displaced following armed conflict in southern Shan... • Six months on, humanitarian access to IDPs in the Sumprabum area of Kachin, remains restricted... • Cash grants are helping flood affected families in Rakhine recover... • Providing reproductive healthcare after the floods... • 146 children released from Myanmar army in 2015
Source/publisher: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
Date of entry/update: 2016-02-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Title: MYANMAR KACHIN & NORTHERN SHAN STATES CAMP PROFILING ROUNDS 1-3: CROSS-CAMP AND TREND ANALYSIS REPORT 2013-2015
Description: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: "Since June 2011, conflict between the Government of Myanmar and the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) left a large number of people displaced across Myanmar?s Kachin and northern Shan States. Although it is likely that many people were displaced before this date, it is estimated that at least 95,000 have been displaced as of October 2015 as a result of this resurgence of conflict. Most of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) are living with host families or in camps dispersed across the area in 166 identified locations."
Source/publisher: Joint IDP Profiling Service & Stats Norway
Date of publication: 2015-00-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-02-24
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Language: English
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Title: How China Fuels Myanmar?s Wars
Description: "...When an estimated 50,000 ethnic Kokang civilians poured into southwest China last month to escape fighting between the Myanmar Army and Kokang rebels, Beijing called for peace and provided food, medical supplies and camps for the refugees. But China?s stance as a benevolent mediator in Myanmar?s many internal conflicts and its treatment of asylum seekers is far less altruistic than Beijing cares to admit. The Myanmar military has been at war with dozens of ethnic groups for decades, fueled by long-burning animosities, competition over natural resources and minority demands for more autonomy. Kokang fighters, seeking to regain territory lost in 2009, are jockeying for a better position in nationwide cease-fire talks set to resume this month in Yangon. More than 130 soldiers from the Kokang and national armies have been killed in the latest clashes. China has publicly distanced itself from the Kokang conflict and maintained neutrality. But Chinese-led development projects have long stoked the ethnic tensions and military conflicts in Myanmar, particularly in recent years..."
Creator/author: Mattew Smith
Source/publisher: "The New York Times"
Date of publication: 2015-03-04
Date of entry/update: 2015-03-05
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Language: English
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Title: Is Myanmar?s Peace Process Unraveling?
Description: "Over the last three weeks, fighting has broken out in Myanmar?s northeast between the military and several ethnic minority militias, including the ethnic Kokang Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and, allegedly, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). The KIA is one of the most powerful insurgent groups in Myanmar. At least 30,000 civilians have fled across the border into China, and the fighting has killed at least 130 people. The Myanmar military has attacked rebel groups with air strikes, and the fighting shows no sign of letting up. The fighting began on February 9, when Kokang rebels attacked government troops in the town of Laukkai and the Myanmar army launched a fierce counterattack. The exact reasons for the clash on February 9 remain somewhat unclear. The fighting may stem from a personal feud between the Kokang group?s leader and the Myanmar armed forces? commander in chief, or it may have been sparked by a desire by the Kokang militia to take back control of Laukkai. Or, the attack may have been retaliation for previous unreported attacks on Kokang fighters by the Myanmar military. Or, it may have stemmed from a dispute over drug trafficking and its profits; the northeast of Myanmar is one of the biggest producers of opium and synthetic methamphetamine stimulants in Asia. Still, the broader security environment in Myanmar clearly has played a role in this recent outbreak of fighting. Indeed, the Kokang clashes with the Burmese army are reflective of several disturbing trends in Myanmar ? trends that, if they continue, could undermine the country?s peace process and possibly lead to a wider outbreak of civil war..."
Creator/author: Joshua Kurlantzick
Source/publisher: [US] Council on Foreign Relations
Date of publication: 2015-02-24
Date of entry/update: 2015-02-25
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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