Photo Exhibition shown at the Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Photo journalistic presentation of the lives of some of the victims of landmines living along Thailand’s border with Burma.
URL : http://www.flickr.com/photos/minefreeworld/sets/72157629443191444/detail/
Financial support provided by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines [...]
Pro-Mine Ban party becomes part of Parliament in Myanmar/Burma, HMUB, Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan, 24 April 2012
In mid-April, the National League for Democracy (NLD), which had previously been prevented from participation in electoral politics in Myanmar won 43 of the 45 parliamentary seats available in a by-election. The National League for Democracy has consistently called for [...]
Govt Wants to Start Resettling Refugees: Minister, Irrawaddy, Saw Yan Naing, 23 April 2012
Many refugees from conflict, and mine, affected areas of Myanmar/Burma reside in camps in Thailand. ON 21 April, during a meeting with the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) in Mae Hong Son, Thailand, Railways Minister Aung Min, the chief government negotiator [...]
“Untold Miseries”: Wartime Abuses and Forced Displacement in Burma’s Kachin State, Human Rights Watch, March 2012
Report has a specific section on the use and deaths and injuries caused by mine warfare. Quotes a Kachin Independence Organization doctor as saying that: “The difference between Kachin and Burmese landmines is that the KIO mine blasts shrapnel [...]
Karenni groups agree on peace negotiation points Wednesday, 07 March 2012 18:11 Mizzima News
Representatives of the Karenni Community Based Organizations met and endorsed current negotiations between the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and the Burmese government. The group affirmed several points which they requested the leadership to pursue during negotiations, including that: both the [...]
In February the Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party, an Kayin ethnicity based political party which won some seats in both the national and state parliaments in the October 2010 elections, presented a parliamentary question in the Kayin State Parliament. PSDP State MP Min Aung Lin had 6 villages within his constituency which were mine affected. The inhabitants [...]
