Recent fighting in late December 2016 and early January 2017 in Nagyang area has resulted in over 6,000 IDPs from Zai Aung/Mung Ga Zup, Hkau Shau and Maga Yang IDPs camps facing grave safety and security challenges. KDG has been in the forefront of IDPs humanitarian crisis response since the armed conflict in Kachin and norther Shan state resumed in June, 2011 after a seventeen-year of fragile ceasefire between Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the then Myanmar government collapsed. Its military wing, Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is estimated to have around 10,000 fighters. Its In 1957, a 7-member Kachin student group, known as 7 stars group, was founded to lay groundwork for future Kachin Independence Organization and Kachin Independence Army. Kachin Independence Organisation News: Latest and Breaking News on Kachin Independence Organisation.
The Kachin Independence Organization ent a letter to the Chinese government warning that civil war would occur if the construction of the Myitsone Dam on Myanmar’s territory proceeds. Colonel Naw Bu, KIO spokesperson, whose armed group is the largest in Kachin, said the meeting took place at Mai Sak Pa village in Waingmaw township. KDG has been in the forefront of IDPs humanitarian crisis response since the armed conflict in Kachin and norther Shan state resumed in June, 2011 after a seventeen-year of fragile ceasefire between Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the then Myanmar government collapsed.

The KIO is one of the ethnic rebels who originally fight for complete independence but later lowered to autonomy. Password Protected. The Kachin Independence Army was the first of Burma’s non-state armed groups to negotiate a ceasefire with the junta in 1994 but promises of investment in the infrastructure in Kachin State were never truly realised, and the ceasefire collapsed in June 2011. “The best we can do right now is telling the public to prevent virus infection by washing hands, social distancing, and restricting their movement,” said Dr. Hing Wawm, a medical expert with the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), the governing body of the Kachin Independence Army, one of Myanmar’s major ethnic armed groups.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the armed wing of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) has a flag, red over green with two crossed swords in white. Nine years ago, on this June 9, a seventeen-year ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), the KIA’s political arm, and the Burma Army ended. Description: "ntense fighting continues in Kachin State between the Myanmar Government Armed Forces (Tatmadaw)and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA).

YANGON — A tribunal of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) sentenced a poppy grower to death and another to seven years in jail for fatally shooting a member of an ethnic Kachin movement against opium. Although it is likely that many people were displaced before this date, it is estimated that at least 95,000 have been displaced as …
Kachin Independence Organization ကခ်င္ျပည္ လြတ္လပ္ေရး အဖြဲ႔ Armed … Monuments to honor Kachin displaced by fighting will be erected in three camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Kachin State during the ninth anniversary of the conflict between the Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). The conflict between the Kachin Independence Army and the government has been flaring up again in 2011. Representatives of the Kachin State government and the ethnic armed Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) met on May 13 to discuss a joint effort to fight COVID-19.

For nearly two decades following its 1994 ceasefire, the Kachin Independence Organisation built up a business empire that intertwined formally with the state. Description: "ntense fighting continues in Kachin State between the Myanmar Government Armed Forces (Tatmadaw)and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA). The vehicle for many of these businesses is Buga Co Ltd, which the KIO’s economic department registered with the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration in early 1995. The chairman of the Kachin Independence Organisation, General N’Ban La, called for unity among the Kachin people in a speech on February 5 to mark the 60th anniversary of Kachin Revolution Day at the KIO’s headquarters at Laiza, on the border with China. To view this protected post, enter the password below: The brutal fighting resulted in the displacement of more than 100,000 Kachin civilians. Government of Myanmar and the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) left a large number of people displaced across Myanmar’s Kachin and northern Shan States.