Karen history
Websites/Multiple Documents
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Karen history
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English
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Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Karen history
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English
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Karen History ... Books & Literatures
...Karen Dress
...Karen Stories
...Karen Holidays
...Karen Music
Source/publisher:
Karen Website
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-12
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Websites/Multiple Documents
Category:
Karen history
Language:
English
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Individual Documents
Kwekalu
Source/publisher:
Kwekalu
Date of publication:
2013-05-08
Date of entry/update:
2019-03-25
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Individual Documents
Language:
Sgaw Karen
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"၀့ၢ်တကူၣ်ကီၢ်ခီဒိၣ် ကညီလံာ်လဲၢ် ဒီးတၢ်ဆဲးတၢ်လၤကမံးတံာ် တီခိၣ်ရိၣ်မဲ၀ဲဒီးပာ်ဖှိၣ်ကွဲး၀ဲကညီဖိ တၢ်စံၣ်စိၤတဲစိၤလံာ်အံၤ ၀ံၤလံ၀ဲ(၈၀)မျးကယၤလံအဂ့ၢ် ၦၤတီခိၣ်ရိၣ်မဲတၢ်၀့ၢ်တကူၣ်ဖၠၣ်စိမိၤ တၢ်စံၣ်စိၤတဲစိၤ၀ဲၤကျိၤ ဒီကထၢၣ်နါလဲၣ်စံး၀ဲန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
ဒီကထၢၣ် နါလဲၣ် စံး၀ဲလၢ “၀ံၤဖးအါလံ၊ အိၣ်လၢ(၈၀)မျးကယၤလံႉ အခဲအံၤက့ၤဖီၣ်ဘျ့အီၤလီၤႉ ပ၀ဲတခီတမ့ၢ်လၢ ပကလူၤ လၢကီၢ်ပဒိၣ်ဒီး ကညီဖီၣ်စုက၀ဲၤတဖၣ်ဘၣ်ႉ မ့ၢ်ဒ်သိးပကပာ်လီၤဒုးနဲၣ်ကမျၢၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ် ပကျဲးစၢးလီၤႉ ပဆိမိၣ်လၢကမ့ၢ်တၢ်သးမံတခါလီၤ”အဂ့ၢ် စံးဘၣ်၀ဲ ခ့ၣ်အဲးစံၣ် ကညီတၢ်ကစီၣ်အံၤ ဖဲလါယနူၤအါရံၤ၁၈သီအနံၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
ရန်ကုန်တိုင်း ကရင်တိုင်းရင်းသားစာပေနှင့် ယဉ်ကျေးမှုကော်မတီမှ ဦးဆောင်ပြုလုပ်သည့် ကရင်အမျိုးသား သမိုင်းပြုစုရေးမှာ ၈ဝရာခိုင်နှုန်းအထိ ပြီးစီးနေပြီဖြစ်ကြောင်း သမိုင်းပြုစုရေး ဦးဆောင်ပြုစုသူ ရန်ကုန်တက္ကသိုလ် သမိုင်းဌာနမှ ကထိက ဒေါက် တာနန်းလှိုင်က ပြောသည်။ ဒေါက်တာနန်းလှိုင်က “တော်တော်လေးပြီးနေပြီ။ ၈ဝရာခိုင်နှုန်းလောက်ထိပြီးနေပြီ။ နည်းနည်းလေး အချောကိုင်နေတာ။ ကျနော်တို့က အစိုးရနဲ့ ကရင်လက်နက်ကိုင် အဖွဲ့အစည်းကို ဗဟိုပြုမှာ မဟုတ်ဘူး။ ပြည်သူကို ဗဟိုပြုမယ့် သမိုင်းတစ်စောင် ဖြစ်အောင် ကျနော်တို့ ကြိုးစားနေတယ်။ တော်တော်လေးကို ထွက်ဖူးတဲ့ဟာတွေထက် ပိုကျေနပ်မယ်လို့ ထင်ပါတယ်။”ဟု ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၁၈ရက်နေ့က ကေအိုင်စီသို့ ပြောသည်။"
နၣ်ဖီၣ်မွံၤရှၣ်
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2019-01-22
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-28
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Individual Documents
Language:
Sgaw Karen, Burmese ျမန္မာဘာသာ
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Abstract:
"This thesis investigates the themes and society of displaced Karen identity on the border
between Burma and Thailand. The impact of the authoritarian military rule in Burma
cannot be underestimated. The government exercises tremendous power to shape the
social and economic environment. They determine whether a civil-society is prosperous
and functions in an appropriate manner. Governments are also responsible for societal
support and protection of all its populace. The population of Burma is essentially isolated
from the global society through regime censorship and restrictions. The inter-linking spiral
of humanitarian emergencies and continued to escalate, these include refugee, internally
displaced people, the spread of preventable diseases and the illicit narcotic production.
Recently, the Western governments had solidified their position towards the military junta
resulting in a stalemate of diplomatic interaction, with ultimately the people of Burma
being the victims of such actions. Current realities in the global sphere present the
powerful Western Nations an opportunity for a change in perspective. US policy
recommendations include a greater dialogue with the junta and the outcome of the election
is seen as crucial to fostering better relation. It is imperative that long-essential reforms are
undertaken if Burma if is to achieve lasting peace.
The international community must develop coherent and focused policies towards Burma
and make conflict resolution a priority. Humanitarian aid and displaced refugee support
will play a vital role, and in the 21st Century regional dimensions must be addressed. The
challenges of nation-state building must be made in conjunction with political,
humanitarian, and economic issues."
Source/publisher:
University of Manchester (thesis submitted in 2010)
Date of publication:
2010-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2013-06-03
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Individual Documents
Category:
Karen National Union (KNU), Karen history, Armed conflict in Karen State - general articles and reports
Language:
English
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Most people know of the Karen people from television documentaries, magazines and encyclopedias as the "long-neck" or "giraffe" tribe. But the women who wear these brass rings on their neck belong to a sub-group of the Karen known as the Padaung. There are other sub-groups who do not and never have practiced this custom. A further myth is that these rings act to elongate the wearer?s neck. Any chiropractor or orthopedic surgeon will tell you that this would lead to paralysis or death. In fact the appearance of a longer neck is a visual illusion. The weight of the rings pushes down the collar bone, as well as the upper ribs, to such an angle that the collar bone actually appears to be a part of the neck!
Source/publisher:
Peoples of the World Foundation
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-12
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Individual Documents
Category:
Karen history
Language:
English
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Source/publisher:
Wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-12
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Individual Documents
Category:
Karen history
Language:
English
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CONTENTS:
1. Karen social and political aspirations
2. Karen history and culture
3. Karen political organization
David Tharckabaw, Roland Watson
Source/publisher:
Dictator Watch
Date of publication:
2003-11-00
Date of entry/update:
2010-11-12
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Individual Documents
Category:
Karen history
Language:
English
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"THE object of this book is to present and to explain to the reading
public, and to those who are in authority, the condition of the Karens,
the position they occupy, and their aspirations as a nation second in
importance of the indigenous races of the province of Burma. It is their
desire to have a country of their own, where they may progress as a race
and find the contentment they seek. It is this contentment which gives a
man or a nation that satisfaction and good-will and creates that
patriotic feeling so essential to the well-being of the nation.
Self-respect in a nation begets respect from other nations and races.
What a grand thing the achievement of their ambition will be for the
Karens, and what praises and blessing will be showered upon those who
shall have made it possible. The Karens will then be in a position to
show sincere respect to other races, especially to the Burmese, with
whom they have been at variance, and in turn the Burmese will find them
worthy of respect and esteem..."
Dr. San C. Po C.B.E.
Source/publisher:
Elliott Stock (Publisher)
Date of publication:
1928-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2008-05-05
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Originally published as The Karens and their Struggle For
Freedom? in 1991 by the Karen National Union
Reprinted under the same title by the KNU in July 1992, 18 pages,
and in 1997 to include Peace talks in 1996/7, 42 pages.
This version reprinted and updated with a new foreword,
Chronology, colour illustrations, and images in 2006 by the Karen
History and Culture Preservation Society...PREFACE (To the original Edition):
"We, the Karens of Burma, have been cornered into
fighting against the ruling Burmese Governments
for the past fifty years.
Holding the reins of all organs of the state, and in
full control of the press radio, and television, the
successive ruling Burmese Governments from U
Nu?s AFPFL (Anti-Fascist People?s Freedom League)
to the present Military Junta headed by General
Than Shwe and his State Peace and Development
Council ( SPDC ), have always painted us as black
as they can. They have branded us insurgents, war-mongers, a handful of border smugglers, black-and stooges of both the communists and
the imperialists.
Even so, to the extent of our ability we have always
tried to refute the nefarious one-sided Burman
propaganda of false accusations and make the true
facts of our cause known to the world.
In fighting against the ruling Burmese Government,
we are not being motivate by narrow nationalism,
nor by ill-will towards the Burmese Government or
the Burman people. Our struggle was not instigated
neither by the capitalist world nor by the communists,
as some have falsely accused us. It has an originality
completely of its own. Throughout history, the
Burman have been practicing annihilation, absorption
and assimilation ( 3 A?s) against the Karens and they
are still doing so today. In short, they are waging a
genocidal war against us. Thus we have been forced
to fight for our very existence and survival.
In this document we venture to present a concise
outline of the Karens? struggle for freedom; the
Karen case, which we consider just, righteous and
noble. We hope that through it, the world may come
to know the true situation of the Karens, a forgotten
people who continue to fight for our freedom
intensively, single handedly and without aid of any
kind from anyone..."
Source/publisher:
Karen History and Culture Preservation Society (KHCPS)
Date of publication:
2006-08-00
Date of entry/update:
2006-08-22
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Karen Heritage, Karen history, Karen National Union (KNU)
Language:
English
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pdf
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1.48 MB
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Most Burmese are familiar with aspects of Karen culture, but few are aware of its deeper significance as an expression of their unique values and historical experience.
Min Zin
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 8. No. 10
Date of publication:
2000-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Individual Documents
Language:
English
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"The Karen State of Kawthoolei has been heavily dependent on teak extraction to fund the Karen National
Union struggle against the Burmese military junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).
Raymond Bryant explores the social and economic structure of Kawthoolei, and the way in which resource
extraction was more than simply a source of revenue � it was also an integral part of the assertion of Karen
sovereignty..."
Raymond Bryant
Source/publisher:
"Watershed" Vol.3 No.1 July - October 1997
Date of publication:
1997-10-00
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Community forestry, Karen history, Armed conflict in Burma - Impact on village life, including health and education, Deforestation
Language:
English
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