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Tag: Karen Peace Support Network

This picture taken on January 31, 2015 shows traditional Karen dancers perfoming for guests during celebrations marking the 66th Karen Revolution Day at the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)'s Seventh Brigade headquarters in Myanmar's eastern Kayin state. The KNLA is the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU) and is believed to have between 3,000 to 5,000 active fighters in its ranks. The KNU signed a ceasefire agreement with Myanmar's central government in 2012 but fighting has continued sporadically in several border areas, undermining the authorities' hopes to reach a nationwide ceasefire with all of the country's armed ethnic groups ahead of the 2015 general elections scheduled for the end of the year.  AFP PHOTO/KC Ortiz / AFP PHOTO / KC Ortiz
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

The revolution that will never die in Myanmar

by Oliver Slow February 16, 2019February 18, 2020

On a misty January morning, several thousand ethnic Karen people gathered near a mountaintop at Law Khee Lar, a rural part of their home state in Myanmar near the Thailand border. Law Khee Lar is located in territory controlled by the Karen National Union (KNU), a political organization with an armed wing that has been […]

A Karen insurgent soldier holds a rocket launcher while standing guard at Oo Kray Kee village in Karen State near the Thai-Myanmar border in a file photo. Photo: AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar, South Asia

A road back to war in Myanmar

by Sally Kantar May 5, 2018February 18, 2020

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