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According to reports, approximately 300 troops of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) have recently entered the Mong Yaw region of Lashio District, located in Shan State. Locals told the Shan Herald that a UWSA column of nearly 300 troops entered the Mong Yaw region of Lashio District on the west side of the Salween River from the east of the Salween River this week. "Wa troops
This morning at Sob Moei -- the confluence of the Moei and the Salween rivers on the Thailand-Myanmar border -- indigenous peoples and their supporters are attending a spiritual ceremony to express their collective stance to protect the Salween River from destructive dam projects.
A film director was repatriated from Myanmar on Tuesday morning after his family claimed that he had been kidnapped for ransom by the United Wa State Army (UWSA) since Jan 4. However, Myanmar authorities insisted that he had entered the UWSA's territory of his own free will.
When speaking about Shan refugees in Thailand it is impossible to leave out the migrants, legal, illegal, asylum seekers and last but not least the stateless without proper documentation from Shan State.
The mainspring of internally displaced people (IDPs) and refugees fleeing their homes in Shan State stems basically from internal armed conflict, a crisis with a long history.