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PDF Restricts Traffic Hours On Putao To Myitkyina Road

PDF Restricts Traffic Hours On Putao To Myitkyina Road

The Putao People's Defence Force (PDF), a group fighting the military regime, has announced that it'll restrict traffic hours on the motorway from Myitkyina to Putao in order to stop illegal dealings by the military

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Drug Dealers Bribe Putao Police

Drug Dealers Bribe Putao Police

Putao police have reportedly released several drug dealers from jails after receiving bribes in the remote town in northern Kachin State, following an increase of illegal drugs since the military coup more than two years

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Curfew orders and military checkpoints make life difficult for local people in Myitkyina and Hpakant towns

Curfew orders and military checkpoints make life difficult for local people in Myitkyina and Hpakant towns

Since 23 January, the Burma Army has imposed curfew orders in some Townships of Kachin State, including Myitkyina Township. The curfew orders restricted people from being on the street between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m.

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Junta Charges Former KBC Leader In Myitkyina

Junta Charges Former KBC Leader In Myitkyina

The military government has charged a former leader of the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) after arresting him last month and holding him in a secret location that not even his family and close friends knew

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Officials Collect Population Data In Kachin State Before Elections

Officials Collect Population Data In Kachin State Before Elections

The military government starting tabulating the population across Kachin State to identify eligible voters for the upcoming national elections. A man from Mohnyin, who requested anonymity, told KNG that regime officials were in town on

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Regime Columns Sent To N’Hkai Bum

Regime Columns Sent To N’Hkai Bum

Hostilities between the military and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have escalated near N'hkai Bum after regime soldiers from two columns have been patrolling around the foot of the mountain where the Kachin soldiers are

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Lt. Gen Tun Tun Naung hates to hear about IDPs and threatens to close down refugee camps

Lt. Gen Tun Tun Naung hates to hear about IDPs and threatens to close down refugee camps

Military Council’s Minister of Border Affairs, Lieutenant General Tun Tun Naung has told refugees from the war in Myitkyina, that he does not even want to hear the term IDP (Internally Displaced People) anymore, and

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Junta Releases Political Prisoners In Kachin State

Junta Releases Political Prisoners In Kachin State

Burma's regime has reportedly freed 86 prisoners from Kachin State as part of an amnesty during the Southeast Asian country's 102th National Day. The junta leadership has claimed it released 5,779 prisoners (5,098 men, 676

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Regime Arrests KIO, Destroys Home In Myitkyina Township

Regime Arrests KIO, Destroys Home In Myitkyina Township

The junta forces has reportedly destroyed the home of a relative of an officer of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), whose armed wing, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), is fighting the dictatorship. A man living

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Regime Prevents Hpakant Bombing Victims From Reaching Hospitals

Regime Prevents Hpakant Bombing Victims From Reaching Hospitals

The Burma Army (BA) is stopping people wounded in its recent airstrike on a concert in the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) Brigade 9 area in Hpakant Township from being taken to hospitals in Hpakant and