Peace Monitoring Dashboard: June 2019

Peace process highlights

• Woman injured from artillery shell explosion when clash erupted near Shwetamar village in Minbya Township, N-Rakhine on 2 June
• At least five civilians killed when artillery landed near a monastery sheltering in N-Rakhine State’s rural Minbya area
• Hundreds of Shan State Villagers Call on Tatmadaw to Release their headman from military custody in northern Shan State
• NSCN-K will not sign NCA, Official with the Myanmar Army (Tatmadaw) in spite of ‘repeated aggression’ by Naypidaw
• Over 100 organizations released statement to stop waging war immediately across Myanmar including Rakhine State
• The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) calls on the Arakan Army (AA) to release 52 Chin civilians
• Over 40 village administrators in the Kyauktaw township resigned their posts to protest the arrests of colleagues by military forces
• Facebook Urged to Remove Military-Linked Co. Pages
• Brig-Gen. Khin Zaw of the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok opposed to meeting of EAOs, he asked Thailand to Block Meeting
• Over one hundred schools are facing challenges to open due to ongoing clashes between the Tatmadaw and the AA in the N-Rakhine region
• Four bodies were found on 14 June near Sabahtar village in Minbya Township where the Tatmadaw and AA fought fiercely
• KNU didn’t join the secretariat’s meeting of UPDJC but the KNU is willing to engage in informal meetings with government officials to overcome deadlocks in the peace process
• The Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) sent a warning letter with a bullet to Miner in Tedim Township, Chin State
• Myanmar refutes report that UN will withdraw aid in Rakhine
• More than 220 flee homes in Shan State during military tensions between Tatmadaw and TNLA
• FPNCC members met at Panghsang to discuss about bilateral agreement with the Gov’t
• World Refugee Day – 20 June, released of a report on protracted displacement due to armed conflict and related human rights violations in Burma/Myanmar
• The Myanmar government has blocked Internet access in eight townships in Rakhine State where ongoing conflicts are occurring between the Tatmadaw and the AA
• Myanmar’s military rejected an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor’s call for a full investigation into alleged crimes against Rohingya
• 118 schools still closed in Paletwa, Chin State
• Rakhine state’s Political forces urge President to deal with Rakhine state affairs
• the military announced another two months extension to ceasefire in northern Myanmar and expects bilateral agreement negotiation process
• Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi invited the Mongla ethnic armed group in Shan State Special Region-4 to sign NCA for the establishment of a democratic federal republic