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''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 fighting against state forces for seven decades, in one of the world’s longest running civil wars.
On this particular day, Karen people gathered to celebrate the 70th Karen Revolution Day, an annual commemoration of the beginning of the KNU’s Karen National Liberation Army’s (KNLA) long armed struggle for self-determination and rights...''
Source/publisher:
Asia Times
Date of Publication:
2019-02-16
Date of entry:
2019-02-18
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- Individual Documents
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Geographic coverage:
- Karen State
Countries:
Myanmar
Language:
English
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Resource Type:
text
Text quality:
- Good