Karen National Union (KNU)
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Our Policies:
"The Burmese military dictatorship spreads lies and misinformation about the KNU.
We don?t recruit child soldiers, we don?t attack civilians and we are not trying to break up Burma.
Read the truth about our policies here..."...Objectives:
"The KNU Mission Statement is to establish a genuine Federal Union in cooperation with all the Karen and all the ethnic peoples in the country for harmony, peace, stability and prosperity for all.
Read more here..."...Our Fallen Heroes:
"Many brave Karen have given their lives in our struggle for freeedom. Find out more about them here..."...Our Leaders:
"KNU leaders are democratically elected. Find out more here..."...Structure:
"The KNU has a democratic structure, with regular elections. We also provide local services and administration in Karen State.
Find out more about our structure and our democracy here..."...KNU History:
"The Karen National Union is the leading political organisation representing the aspirations of the Karen people.
The KNU was founded in 1947, its predecessor organisations date back to 1881..."
Source/publisher:
Karen National Union
Date of entry/update:
2011-03-28
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Armed conflict and peace-building in Burma - theoretical, strategic and general, Karen National Union (KNU), Armed conflict in Karen State - general articles and reports
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Substantialsite...
News, photos, articles, links, "Karen Newsletter" - archive
Source/publisher:
Karen Information Center (KIC)
Date of entry/update:
2011-03-28
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Karen National Union (KNU)
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Burmese
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Aims, statements, history etc. Last updated 1998
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Armed conflict and peace-building in Burma - theoretical, strategic and general, Discrimination against the Karen, Karen National Union (KNU)
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English
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Home | About us | Departments | Peace Process | Statements | Human Rights | Karen Unity | Contact...Departments:
Agriculture Department;
Alliance Affairs Department;
Breeding & Fishery Department;
Defense Department;
Education & Culture Department;
Finance & Revenue Department;
Foreign Affairs Department;
Forestry Department;
Health & Welfare Department;
Interior & Religious Department;
Organising & Information Department;
Justice Department;
Mining Department;
Transportation & Communication Department.
Source/publisher:
Karen National Union (KNU)
Date of entry/update:
2013-09-22
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"ၦၤဂ့ၢ်၀ီခွဲးယာ်အတၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤတဖၣ်အပူၤသူၣ်ဘီၣ်သးစၢ်တဖၣ် ကဟူးဂဲၤပၣ်ဃုာ်အါထီၣ်၀ဲအဂီၢ် လိၣ်၀ဲအဂ့ၢ်န့ၣ် ကညီၦၤဂ့ၢ်၀ီခွဲးယာ်ကရူၢ် KHRG ဟ့ၣ်သဆၣ်ထီၣ်၀ဲ ဖဲလါဒံၣ်စ့ဘၢၣ် ၁၀ သီလၢအလီၤဘၣ်၀ဲ ဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်ၦၤဂ့ၢ်၀ီ ခွဲးယာ်အမုၢ်နံၤအံၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
ကီၢ်ပယီၤပူၤန့ၣ်တုၤလၢအခဲအံၤ တၢ်မၤကမၣ်၀ဲၦၤဂ့ၢ်၀ီခွဲးယာ်တဖၣ် ဆဲးအိၣ်ဒံး၀ဲဒီးႇ လၢၦၤဂ့ၢ်၀ီခွဲးယာ်တၢ်တုၤသိး ထဲသိးအဂီၢ် တတုၤထီၣ်ထီၣ်ဘးဒံးဘၣ်အဃိႇသူၣ်ဘီၣ်သးစၢ်တဖၣ်ကဘၣ်ဟူးဂဲၤပၣ်ဃုာ်အါထီၣ်အဂီၢ်လိၣ်၀ဲအဂ့ၢ်န့ၣ် ကညီၦၤဂ့ၢ်၀ီခဲွးယာ်ကရူၢ် ဟ့ၣ်သဆၣ်ထီၣ်၀ဲဖဲ တၢ်မၤလၤကပီၤ၀ဲ ၦၤဂ့ၢ်၀ီခွဲးယာ်အမုၢ်နံၤဖဲဒူသထူၣ်ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ်ႇ ဘံလ့ကီၢ်ဆၣ်ကွံလ့သ၀ီအပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of entry/update:
2020-01-06
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Freedom of Movement, violations of in Burma/Myanmar, Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen, Karen National Union (KNU)
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Title: Grassroots Karen Women Groups Call for Genuine Reforms and More Involvement in Burma Politics
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"Karen women’s groups called for more women to be involved in Burma’s federal political and Karen National Union elections. The call was made in a statement issued after the 4th Grassroots Karen Women Seminar held during the last week of October, 2019.
The statement called for the abolishment of the 2018 Vacant Fellow and Virgin land law and for widespread land disputes to be settled fairly. The statement said women had to be included and involved in issues such as the enactment and enforcement of the women protection law, measure on refugee issue and support for cross-border aid, the abolishment of the 2008 constitution and amending to be a genuine federal constitution, to immediately stop large scale development projects in ethnic areas before genuine peace is achieved, to find solutions to overcome the deadlock on the current peace process, and to have free, fair and transparent elections with more women involved in the Burma’s 2020 general election and future KNU elections..."
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
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Karen National Union (KNU), Various rights: reports of violations against several ethnic groups, Political analysis of Burma and the region
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"The Karen National Union said the effectiveness and the usefulness of foreign funding has been nullified by need for ethnic armed organizations to seek permission from the government.
The National Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC), formed by the President’s Office to set policies and guidelines for reconciliation and peace process taking place, sent an official letter to 10 ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) who are signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) on September 3, 2019, informing them of the procedure..."
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of entry/update:
2019-12-02
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Title: GRASSROOTS KAREN WOMEN GROUPS CALL FOR GENUINE REFORMS AND MORE INVOLVEMENT IN BURMA POLITICS
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Karen women’s groups called for more women to be involved in Burma’s federal political and Karen National Union elections.
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“The calls we made are important and need to be carefully taken into consideration. Our view is that a collective call is more effective than an individual one. Some of the points we made have already been communicated to the KNU, ethnic armed groups and the government. We have made these calls repeatedly so, we hope that the relevant government notices and implements them...”
Source/publisher:
Karen News
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-18
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"The Karen National Union said the effectiveness and the usefulness of foreign funding has been nullified by need for ethnic armed organizations to seek permission from the government..."
Source/publisher:
Karen News
Date of entry/update:
2019-11-18
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"၀့ၢ်တကူၣ်ကီၢ်ခီဒိၣ် (TA)ကၠိသရၣ်ႇ မုၣ်လၢအသိၣ်လိကညီလံာ်အိၣ် (၆၁ဂၤ)အံၤ ထီၣ်ဘၣ် တီၤဖုၣ်ကၠိသရၣ်တၢ်သိၣ်လိလီၤႉ ၦၤကိးဆိလၢၦၤဖျိထီၣ်ဖၠၣ်စိမိၤတဖၣ်ႇ ထီၣ်တၢ်သိၣ်လိမ့ၢ်၀ံၤန့ၣ် သိၣ်လိတီၤဖုၣ်န့ၢ်လံႉ လၢလံာ်တၢ်ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါအပူၤ တၢ်ပာ်ဂၢၢ်ပာ်ကျၢၤအီၤကန့ၢ်အဂီၢ် ကဘၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်သိၣ်လိအံၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ” အဂ့ၢ် မါသါ၀့အူသ့ၣ်ညါဘၣ်လီၤ..."
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-15
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Educational resources and materials (Burma- and non-Burma-related), Karen National Union (KNU)
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"From February until early April 2019, intermittent confrontations between the Tatmadaw and the
KNLA resulted in the displacement of at least 108 people in Kheh Der village tract. The fighting
broke out because the Tatmadaw is undertaking controversial road construction works despite
the objection of local communities and the KNU..."
KHRG
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Right Group
Date of publication:
2019-04-30
Date of entry/update:
2019-05-13
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“ပထံၣ်လၢပမ့ၢ်ဒီသဒၢလၢတၢ်ဆဲးကသံၣ်တခီ တၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲတဖၣ်ပလဲၤခီပတာ်အီၤကန့ၢ်”
(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)ကညီဒီကလုာ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢ တၢ်ပၢ မုၢ်တြီၢ်(ဖၣ်ပူၣ်) တၢ်လီၢ်ဟီၣ်က၀ီၤအပူၤ စးထီၣ်ဖဲလါအီကူာ် ကတၢၢ်ဒီးလါစဲးပထ့ဘၢၣ်ကတီၢ်အံၤ ပှၤဖိသၣ်ကအိၣ်လၢ (၃၀၀)ဃၣ်ဃၣ်ဘၣ်၀ဲ တၢ်သမူးဖိတၢ်ဆါအံၤ န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဘၣ်ထွဲဒီးတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်အ၀ဲအံၤ ပှၤလၢအကူစါ၀ဲတၢ်ဆါအံၤ အဘူးကတၢၢ်လၢအမ့ၢ် (BPHWT)ပှၤနဲၣ် တၢ် စီၤ၀့ကၠီၣ်အံၤ ပထံၣ်လိာ်သံကွၢ်အီၤန့ၣ်လီၤ..."
စီၤ၀့ကၠီၣ်အံ
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2018-08-28
Date of entry/update:
2019-03-28
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"တကီၢ်ခါတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်တၢ်လဲၤကျဲအိၣ်ကတာ်ထီသးတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်အံၤခ့ၣ်အဲးစံၣ်ကညီတၢ်ကစီၣ်ထံၣ်လိာ်သံကွၢ်သံဒိးဒီးကညီဒီကလုာ်တၢ်ထူၣ်ဖျဲးသုးမုၢ်ဒိၣ်ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်အဲလ်အ့ၣ်သုးရိၣ်မဲခိၣ်ကျၢၢ်(၂)သုးခိၣ်ကျၢၢ်စိ စီၤဘီကၠီၣ်ဟဲတဲ၀ဲဒ်အံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ..."
KIC
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2019-01-03
Date of entry/update:
2019-03-28
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Individual Documents
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Armed conflict in Karen State - military activities and their impact on village life, including livelihood, health, education and land tenure security, Karen National Union (KNU), Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen
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Sgaw Karen
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"တကီၢ်ခါ တၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ် ထံလီၢ်ကီၢ်ပူၤ တၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်သးတဖၣ်၊ တၢ်ကတိၤ တၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်အပူၤ တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တၢ်ကျိၤ လၢတၢ်အအိၣ်ကတာ်ထီအသးတဖၣ်ဒ်အမ့ၢ် တဘၣ်ထုးဖးသးဘၣ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်ဒီး တၢ်စံၣ်ညီၣ်ပၢလီၤသးခွဲးယာ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တဖၣ်ဒီး တၢ်ကပာ်က့ၤ သုးမုၢ်ဒိၣ်ထဲတခါဧိၤတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်တဖၣ်အံၤ ခ့ၣ်အဲးစံၣ်=ကညီတၢ်ကစီၣ်ထံၣ်လိာ်သံကွၢ်သံဒိး၀ဲ ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ် အနဲၣ်ရွဲၣ်ခိၣ်ကျၢၢ် ပဒိၣ်စီၤတၤဒိၣ်မူ ဒ်အံၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2018-11-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-03-28
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"Karen Poem"
(၁) ကညီဖိ မိၢ်ထံးပၢ်ထံး
ဆ့ကံၣ်ဆ့မိၢ်သူဖိလံၤ
တတူၢ်ဃီ ပမ့ၢ်ကညီ
မ့ၢ်သပၢၤဟၢတဖျၢၣ်ဃီ
ပြၣ်မါ,ပယီၤမၤသ့ၣ်ဖး.
ဖျိးကွံာ်ပ၀ဲဂၤပၤပၤ.
(၂) တနီၤလၢထံကွာ်ထံခံ
တနီၤလၢထံယံၤကီၢ်ယံၤ.
မ့ၢ်နၢ်သက့သပၢၤက့
သါပ့ၤနီၣ်လိာ်သးတသ့.
တစၢၤဃီမ့ၢ်ဘၣ်တၢ်ကီ
တဆ့ၣ်နီၤဒီးကွၢ်ကလီ.
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2018-09-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-03-26
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"ဖဲတလၢၤကီၢ်စဲၣ်၊ ဘံလ့ကီၢ်ဆၣ်အပူၤ ကညီကလုာ်သးစၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ် ဒ်သိးဟူးဂဲၤမၤတၢ်လၢ ကလုာ်ဂ့ၢ်၀ီတၢ်ဖံးတၢ် မၤတဖၣ် ဖီၣ်လိာ်သးစုအဂ့ၤထီၣ်အဂီၢ် တၢ်ဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်၀ဲဘံလ့ကီၢ်ဆၣ် ကညီသးစၢ်ဘျးစဲတခါန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
ကညီသးစၢ်ဘျးစဲ၀ဲန့ၣ် ဘၣ်တၢ်ဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်အီၤလၢ၀့ၢ်ဘံလ့၊ ဘိၣ်တ့ၣ်စၣ်က၀ီၤဒ့၊ စကဲပရံၣ်ယဲးတံၣ်သီခါဖၠၣ်အပူၤ ဖဲလါဖ့ၤဘြူၤအါရံၤ ၁၇သီ၊ တၢ်မၤ၀ဲဘံလ့ကီၢ်ဆၣ်သးစၢ်တၢ်ထံၣ်လိာ်တဲသကိး တၢတ၀ီတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2019-02-24
Date of entry/update:
2019-03-18
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"ဧရၣ်၀တံၣ်ကီၢ်ခီဒိၣ်၊ ကၣ်ကၠံဒီၣ်ကီၢ်ဆၣ်အပူၤ ကီၢ်ခိၣ် စီၤဘးအူကၠံအိၣ်ဖျဲၣ်လီၢ် ဘဲကယဲးသ၀ီကျဲမုၢ်အံၤ ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်ကညီဒီကလုာ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢတီခိၣ်ရိၣ်မဲ၀ဲဒီး ဖဲလါယူလံ(၁၈) အနံၤန့ၣ် စးထီၣ်တ့န့ၢ်၀ဲကျဲမုၢ်လံန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
ကျဲမုၢ်၀ဲန့ၣ်(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်) ကရၢခိၣ် သုးခိၣ်ကျၢၢ်ဒိၣ်စိ စီၤမူးတူစ့ဖိအတၢ်နဲၣ်လီၤ၀ဲအဃိ တၢ်စးတ့၀ဲကျဲမုၢ်လၢမံၣ်ခၠီတယၤ(မိချောင်းတစ်ရာ)သ၀ီတုၤ ဘဲကယဲးသ၀ီလၢအဘၢၣ်စၢၤအိၣ်၀ဲ(၂)မံးလာ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
"ဧရာဝတီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ကန်ကြီးထောင့်မြို့နယ်အတွင်းရှိ ကရင်အမျိုးသားခေါင်းဆောင် စောဘဦးကြီး၏ မွေးရပ်ဇာတိဖြစ်သည့် ဘဲဂရက်ကျေးရွာသွားသောလမ်းအား ကေအဲန်ယူ-ကရင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး မှ ဦးဆောင်ကာ ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၁၈ရက်နေ့တွင် စတင်ကာ ဖောက်လုပ်နေပြီး ဖြစ်ကြောင်း သိရသည်။
အဆိုပါ လမ်းကို ကေအဲန်ယူ ဥက္ကဌ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး စောမူတူးစေးဖိုး၏ လမ်းညွှန်ချက်ဖြင့် ဖောက်လုပ်ခြင်းဖြစ်ပြီး ရန်ကုန်-ပုသိမ်လမ်းမကြီးဘေးရှိ မိချောင်းတစ်ရာကျေးရွာထိပ်မှ ဘဲဂရက်ကျေးရွာအထိ ဆက်သွယ် ဖောက်လုပ်မည့် အရှည် ၂ မိုင်ရှိသည့် လမ်းလည်းဖြစ်သည်။..."
နါဖီၤမွံၤရှါ
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2019-01-21
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-25
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Karen National Union (KNU), Other forms of management, Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen
Language:
Sgaw Karen, Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ
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"ကလုာ်ဒူၣ်ဖီၣ်စုက၀ဲၤကဒဲကဒဲအဘၢၣ်စၢၤတၢ်ဃူတၢ်ဖိးတအိၣ်အဃိ တၢ်ပၢၢ်ဆၢအံၤ ဘၣ်ယံာ်၀ဲအဂ့ၢ် ကညီဒီကလုာ်တၢ်ထူၣ်ဖျဲးသုးမုၢ်ဒိၣ် (KNLA)သုးရိၣ်မဲခိၣ်ကျၢၢ် သုးခိၣ်ကျၢၢ်ဒိၣ်စိ စီၤကၠီၣ်နံၣ် စံးလီၤ၀ဲ ဖဲတနံၤအံၤယနူၤအါရံၤ(၃၁)သီ၊ ကညီတၢ်ပၢၢ်ဆၢအမုၢ်နံၤၦဲၤထီၣ်၀ဲ (၇၀)နံၣ်အမူး တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
သုးခိၣ်ကျၢၢ်ဒိၣ်စိ စီၤကၠီၣ်နံၣ် စံး၀ဲလၢ“တၢ်ပၢၢ်ဆၢအတီၢ်ဘၣ်ယံာ်၀ဲတုၤခဲအံၤန့ၣ်ပ၀ဲကလုာ်တဖၣ်၊ ကလုာ်ဒူၣ်တဖၣ်၊ ကရူၢ်ဖီစုက၀ဲၤ တဖၣ်တၢ်ဃူတၢ်ဖိး စှၤစ့ၢ်ႉ ဖီလိာ်စုမၤသကိးတၢ် ဂံၢ်စၢ်အဃိ အခဲအံၤအိၣ်ၦဲၤဒူၣ်လဲၣ်န့ၣ် ပမ့ၢ်တဲသု၊ သုသ့ၣ်ညါလီၤႉ ကဲထီၣ်ခံကရူၢ် သၢကရူၢ်တုၤကတီၢ်အံၤ ပတၢ်ဃူတၢ်ဖိးတအိၣ် ဘၣ်အဃိန့ၣ်ပတၢ်ပၢၢ်ဆၢအံၤၦဲၤထီၣ်၀ဲနံၣ်(၇၀)လံ”အဂ့ၢ် ကတိၤလီၤ၀ဲဖဲ တၢ်ပၢၢ်ဆၢအမုၢ်နံၤၦဲၤထီၣ် (၇၀)နံၣ်မူး တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ လၢဘၣ်တၢ်မၤအီၤ ဖဲသုးက့(၇) သုး၀ဲၤလီၢ်ခိၣ်သ့ၣ်၊ ကျိၣ်ယီၤလ့အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
"တိုင်းရင်းသား လက်နက်ကိုင်များအကြား စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်မှုမရှိ၍ တော်လှန်ရေးသက်တမ်းရှည်ကြာ ရခြင်းဖြစ်သည်ဟု ကရင်အမျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော်-KNLA စစ်ဦးစီးချုပ် ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး စောဂျော်နီက ယနေ့(ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၃၁ရက်)တွင် ကျရောက်သည့် နှစ် (၇၀)ပြည့် ကရင့်တော်လှန်ရေးနေ့ အခမ်းအနားတွင် ပြောဆိုခဲ့သည်။..."
KIC
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-25
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Non-Ceasefire Groups, Karen National Union (KNU)
Language:
Sgaw Karen, Burmese မြန်မာဘာသာ
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"ကညီဖိတဖၣ် ကအိၣ်ဃူအိၣ်ဖိး၀ဲအဂီၢ် ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်-ကညီဒီကလုာ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢ လီၢ်ခၢၣ်သးကမံးတံာ် ပဒိၣ်စီၤတီနံ သဆၣ်ထီၣ်အခံ ဖဲတၢ်မၤလၤကပီၤ ကညီဒီကလုာ်အမုၢ်နံၤ ၦဲၤ ၇၁နံၣ် ဖဲ ဧရၣ်၀တံၣ်ကီၢ်ခီဒိၣ်၊ ၀့ၢ်မၠီမၠးတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
ဖဲလါဖ့ၤဘြူၤအါရံၤ ၁၁သီ၊ တၢ်မၤလၤကပီၤ၀ဲကညီဒီကလုာ်မုၢ်နံၤတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ ဖဲမၠီမၠးကီၢ်ဆၣ်၊ မံသွ့ခၠီသ၀ီကရူၢ်၊ စခဲကၠံသ၀ီအပူၤအံၤန့ၣ် (ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)လီၢ်ခၢၣ်သးထီဘိကမံးတံာ်ပဒိၣ်စီၤတီနံ ကတိၤဟ့ၣ်ဒုးသ့ၣ်ညါ၀ဲ ဘၣ်ဃး တကီၢ်ခါကီၢ်ဒီတဘ့ၣ်တၢ်ပတုာ်တၢ်ခးအလံာ်ဃံးဃာ်(အဲၣ်စံၣ်အ့ၣ်) ဒီး(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)တၢ်လဲၤကျဲလၢတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်အဂ့ၢ်အကျိၤသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အံၤအကတီၢ် အ၀ဲစံးလီၤ၀ဲဒၣ်ဒ်န့ၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
နါဖီမွံၤရှ
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2019-02-17
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-25
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Sgaw Karen
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''ဟတ်ကြီးရေကာတာစီမံကိန်းနယ်မြေအား ထိန်းချုပ်နိုင်ရန်အတွက် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဖေါ်ဆောင်မှုများလုပ်ဆောင်နေစဉ် မြန်မာစစ်တပ်နှင့် ၎င်း၏နယ်ခြားစောင့်တပ် တို့မှ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း ထိုးစစ်များဆင်ကာ နယ်မြေစိုးမိုးမှုရယူရန်ကြိုးစားကြပြီး တိုက်ပွဲများကြောင့် ဒေသခံပြည်သူလူထုထောင်နှင့်ချီကာ အိုးအိမ်စွန့်ခွာ ထွက်ပြေးထိမ်းရှောင်ရသည်။ ဤစာတမ်းတိုလေးကို ဒေါင်းလုပ်ကာ အချက်အလက်အပြည့်အစုံကို ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်...''
"While the Burmese government and Karen leaders are holding historic peace talks in Naypyidaw, the Burma Army and its Border Guard Force (BGF) wages war in Karen State to expand its control over Karen territories, in order to push for an environmentally and socially destructive hydropower project on the Salween River – the Hatgyi Dam. For detail, please read the briefer..."
KESAN
Source/publisher:
Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
Date of publication:
2018-11-15
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-18
[field_licence]
Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Armed conflict in Burma - Impact on village life, including health and education, Karen National Union (KNU), Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen
Language:
Sgaw Karen, Burmese ျမန္မာဘာသာ, English
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"(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)ကညီဒီကလုာ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢ မုၢ်တြီၢ်ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ် တၢ်ပၢ ဟီၣ်က၀ီၤ တၢ်လီၢ်တနီၤအပူၤ တနံၣ်အံၤ၂၀၁၉နံၣ်လါယနူၤအါရံၤအပူၤ(KNLA)သုးမုၢ်ဒိၣ်ဒီးကီၢ်ပယီၤသုးမုၢ်ဒိၣ်တဖၣ်အဘၢၣ်စၢၤတၢ်ခးလိာ်သးက့ၤကဲထီၣ်(၂)ဘျီအဂ့ၢ်(KNLA)သုးက့(၅)ၦၤဘၣ်မူဘၣ်ဒါတဖၣ်စံး၀ဲန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
တၢ်ခးလိာ်အသးန့ၣ် ဖဲလါယနူၤအါရံၤ(၅)သီ တဘျီဒီး ဖဲ(၁၃)သီန့ၣ် တဘျီခီဖျိတၢ်ခီပတာ်၀ဲတၢ်ပာ်ပနီၣ်လီၢ်အဃိ တၢ်ခးလိာ်သးကဲထီၣ်အဂ့ၢ်(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)သုးက့(၅) သုးဂ့ၢ်၀ီခိၣ် သုးခိၣ်ဒိၣ်ဖိ စီၤကျၢၤဒိၣ်စံးဘၣ် ခ့ၣ်အဲးစံၣ်ကညီတၢ်ကစီၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
KIC
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2019-01-24
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-18
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Various groups, Karen National Union (KNU)
Language:
Sgaw Karen
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"On December 18th, the indigenous Karen communities of Mutraw District officially declare the establishment of the Salween Peace Park. This declaration is to fulfill the collective vision for a grassroots pathway to peace and self-determination, and their responsibility to transfer our ancestral domain to the new generation with abundant forest and clean water.
Almost 1000 people, comprising representatives from our communities in Mutraw District, the KNU, Karen CBOs, ethnic representatives from across Burma/ Myanmar and journalists- both domestic and from abroad, joined the event..."
KESAN
Source/publisher:
Karen Environmental and Social Action Network (KESAN)
Date of publication:
2019-01-09
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-28
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Preservation of the environment in Burma/Myanmar, Community forests, Armed conflict in Burma - Impact on village life, including health and education, Karen National Union (KNU), Documents in Pwo-Karen and S'Gaw Karen
Language:
Sgaw Karen, Burmese and English sub-titles
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"The KNU released a statement on December 15 calling for the elimination of the newly enacted “Vacant, Fallow, and Virgin Land Management Law (VFV)” pointing out that it is not in line with the principles of democracy or federal standards.
The KNU statement said that the VFV law contradicts the KNU’s land policy and it violates the accords made in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, especially Article 9, Chapter 3 on the protection of civilian and Article 25 (a-1) of Chapter 6. The KNU urges the government to review, amend, eliminate and rewrite the land law to make it comply with recognized principles of democracy and federal standards.
Padoh Saw Nay Thablay, a member of KNU’s Central Land Committee and head of the Karen Agriculture Department spoke to Karen News..."
Saw Thein Myint
Source/publisher:
Karen News
Date of publication:
2018-12-21
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-14
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Karen National Union (KNU)
Language:
English
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"The KNU released a statement on December 15 calling for the elimination of the newly enacted “Vacant, Fallow, and Virgin Land Management Law (VFV)” pointing out that it is not in line with the principles of democracy or federal standards.
The KNU statement said that the VFV law contradicts the KNU’s land policy and it violates the accords made in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, especially Article 9, Chapter 3 on the protection of civilian and Article 25 (a-1) of Chapter 6. The KNU urges the government to review, amend, eliminate and rewrite the land law to make it comply with recognized principles of democracy and federal standards.
Padoh Saw Nay Thablay, a member of KNU’s Central Land Committee and head of the Karen Agriculture Department spoke to Karen News..."
Saw Thein Myint
Date of publication:
2018-12-21
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-14
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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"Decades of armed conflict, military dictatorship and economic hardship have driven Burma’s health and education services into the ground.
Struggling against successive military regimes in Burma, ethnic communities worked together to give their people education services that the Burma government failed to deliver.
As part of its education program Mobile Teacher Trainers (MTT) trek deep into conflict affected areas to provide critical frontline education services to communities.
Several ethnic groups including Karen, Kayan, Kayah, Karenni, Mon, Shan, Kachin, Naga, Wa, Zomi, Lahu, Pa’ O and Ta’ang, shared the MTT’s model aims to educate Burma’s future generations and provide hope to the people.
Following Burma’s tentative steps towards democratic the opport-unity to combine what has become two separate education systems– one for ethnic people and one controlled by the central Burmese government – is now possible. However, concerns over language and cultural identity have to be resolved if the education system
is to become one..."
Saw Eh Doh Wah
Source/publisher:
Karen Teacher Network Group (KTWG)
Date of publication:
2014-12-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-01-07
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Type:
Individual Documents
Language:
Sgaw Karen, English, (Burmese မန်မာဘာသာ), (English sub-titles)
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"ကရင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္းႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၆ဝ ေက်ာ္ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့တဲ့ ပဋိပကၡေတြ အဆုံးသတ္ႏုိင္ေရးအတြက္ ၂ဝ၁၂ ခုႏွစ္မွာ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအရုံး (KNU) က ျမန္မာအစုိးရနဲ႔ ပဏာမအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ရယူခဲ့ၿပီး ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဖာ္ေဆာင္မႈလုပ္ငန္းေတြ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဆင့္ မေရာက္ရွိေသးဘဲ ေဆြးေႏြးေနဆဲအဆင့္မွာသာ ရွိပါေသးတယ္။ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေန႔နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ကရင္ျပည္သူတခ်ိဳ႕ရဲ႕ အျမင္သေဘာထားေတြကို ျမန္မာဘာသာစာတန္းထုိး တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Women's Organisation
Date of publication:
2014-09-22
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-17
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"KNU Transportation & Communication Department Explain about ASIA Highway and After Ceasefire..."
Colonel Kaukasar Nay Soe
Source/publisher:
Karen Education and Culture Department
Date of publication:
2017-12-06
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-17
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Karen National Union (KNU)
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"The women discussed issues for two days and decided to form the new Grassroots Women’s Network. At the conclusion of the seminar the attendees jointly endorsed the following resolutions:
We call on the Burma Army to stop their military operations in all ethnic areas.
We want the 2008 constitution to be abolished and call on the Burma Government to begin a process whereby a genuine federal constitution can be drawn up.
We also call on all stakeholders to stop mega development projects in all ethnic areas until there is genuine peace and a political settlement.
There must be no forced repatriation of refugees.
We also call on the international community and donors to continue to support
humanitarian aid to refugees and IDPs according to international standards until peace is restored in the country..."
The Karen Women’s Organisation
Source/publisher:
Karen Women's Organisation
Date of publication:
2018-03-30
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-17
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Individual Documents
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Women and Politics in Burma/Myanmar, Various rights: reports of violations against several ethnic groups, Karen and other refugees from Burma in Thailand - general reports and articles, Karen National Union (KNU)
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Sgaw Karen, Burmese ျမန္မာဘာသာ, English
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"တၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ် တၢ်လဲၤကျဲအံၤ တၢ်တဲသကိးအီၤလၢအဖိးသဲးစးအလီၢ်န့ၣ် တၢ်ကတဲသကိးအီၤလၢသဘျ့အဂ့ၢ် (ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)ကညီဒီကလုာ်စၢဖှိၣ်ကရၢဆၢတဲာ်လီၤ၀ဲဒၣ်လၢ ဖဲလါနိၣ်၀့ဘၢၣ်၁၀သီနံၤလၢထီဘိကမံးတံာ် ဂ့ၢ်ဂီၢ်အူတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်(၆)ဘျီတဘျီ အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
ဘၣ်ဃးတၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ် တၢ်လဲၤကျဲအံၤ ကပၣ်ဃုာ် လၢကရူၢ်ဒီတဖုကန့ၢ်အဂီၢ် ကဘၣ်ဟံးတၢ်ဆၢကတီၢ်လိၣ်၀ဲအဃိ မ့မ့ၢ်လၢတၢ်ကထံၣ်လိာ်သးလၢအဖိးသဲးစးန့ၣ် ကအိၣ်ပတုာ်ပတြီာ်ဃာ်၀ဲတစိၢ်ဖိဒီးကဆဲးတဲသကိး၀ဲလၢသဘျ့လီၤ အဂ့ၢ်(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်) နဲၣ်ရွဲၣ်ခိၣ်ကျၢၢ်ပဒိၣ်စီၤတၢ်ဒိၣ်မူတဲဘၣ်ခ့ၣ်အဲးစံၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
"
စးအဲၣ်ဆူ
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2018-11-14
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-03
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Karen National Union (KNU)
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Sgaw Karen, English
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"ၢ်မုာ်တၢ်ခုၣ်တၢ်လဲၤကျဲအံၤအပူၤ ထံကီၢ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်တၢ်ပတုာ်တၢ်ခးအလံာ်ဃံးဃာ်(NCA)အံၤမ့ၢ်၀ဲကျဲအဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်တဘိ လၢကညီဒီကလုာ်အဂီၢ်လီၤအဂ့ၢ် ဒူပျာ်ယာ် ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ်ခိၣ်ပဒိၣ်စီၤရွ့ၣ်မီစံးလီၤ၀ဲဖဲ(ခ့ၣ်အဲၣ်ယူၣ်)ကညီဒီကလုာ်စၢဖှိၣ် ကရၢ ဒူပျာ်ယာ်ကီၢ်ရ့ၣ် ၀ီၢ်ရီကီၢ်ဆၣ် (၄)ဘျီတဘျီ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဖးဒိၣ် ဖဲနိၣ်၀့ဘၢၣ်၂၆သီအနံၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ..."
Source/publisher:
KIC (Karen Information Center)
Date of publication:
2018-11-28
Date of entry/update:
2018-12-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Karen National Union (KNU)
Language:
Sgaw Karen, Burmese(ျမန္မာဘာသာ)
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"On April 5th 2018, Saw O Moo was murdered by Tatmadaw forces on the edge of Htee Hsee Hta Plaw [also known as T?Ree Plaw] farm area, Ler Mu Plaw village tract, Lu Thaw Township. He was on his way back home from a meeting to organise humanitarian assistance to internally displaced people (IDPs). Until now, the Tatmadaw has refused to allow his family to retrieve his body and bury it according to the traditional Karen way. This News Bulletin will pay tribute to the important work that Saw O Moo did for his community, and will analyse how his murder violated the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) Code of Conduct..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)
Date of publication:
2018-06-15
Date of entry/update:
2018-06-21
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"The horrific treatment of Rohingya Muslims and their violent expulsion from Burma has shocked the world. As the Karen Community of Canada (KCC), an organization representing ethnic Karen refugees from Burma (Myanmar), we stand in solidarity with the Rohingya people who face the same brutal treatment that Karen and other ethnic peoples have suffered at the hands of the Burmese military for decades.
We welcome Prime Minister Trudeau?s appointment of Bob Rae as Canada?s Special Envoy to Myanmar. However, we are disappointed that Mr. Rae?s interim report overlooks the systemic nature of Burmese military oppression against all ethnic minorities in Burma. A more holistic approach is needed if Mr. Rae?s final report is to effectively guide Canadian policy toward Burma..."
Source/publisher:
Karen Community of Canada via "Progressive Voice"
Date of publication:
2018-03-13
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-24
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"အပစ်အခတ်ရပ်စဲရေး အကောင်အထည်ဖော်နေဆဲကာလတွင် တပ်မတော်မှ မူထြော်ခရိုင် (ဖာပွန်)အတွင်း စစ်ရေးအမြင်ဖြင့် ကားလမ်းဖောက်လုပ်ရေးအတွက် တပ်အင်အားစေလွှတ်မှုနှင့်ပါတ်သက်သည့် စစ်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှုများအပေါ် KNU- ကရင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး၏ သဘောထားထုတ်ပြန်ချက်..."
Source/publisher:
Karen National Union via "Progressive Voice"
Date of publication:
2018-03-16
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-24
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Karen National Union (KNU)
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Source/publisher:
Karen River Watch via "Progressive Voice"
Date of publication:
2018-03-14
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-24
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Karen National Union (KNU)
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Source/publisher:
Karen River Watch via "Progressive Voice"
Date of publication:
2018-03-14
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-24
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"On Thursday, February 14, 2008, the Network for the Environment and Economic Development (NEED) organized a little party, more of a friendly dinner for two or three dozen friends, in the garden behind its offices in Chiang Mai, Thailand. NEED, as an organization promoting land rights, better farming practices, and environmental conservation, worked very closely with an entire ecosystem of civil society organizations that were based in Thailand but made up of activists from all across Myanmar, and that developed many of their activities, and certainly their research, in Myanmar itself. Indeed, those who attended that dinner came from all parts of Myanmar, and worked for any number of civil society organizations.
At that time, everyone who was familiar with this ecosystem simply called it ?the border”. The border had a physical, geographic, aspect to it: the organizations that made up the border were based along the Thai-Burma border. But they worked inside Myanmar as much as they worked in Thailand, a country that was simply used as a base from where activities could be led inside Myanmar, in the refugee camps, and among migrant workers, and that allowed for easy communication with the world. Foreigners such as myself who visited organizations along the border, in Mae Hong Song, Mae Sariang, Mae Sot, Sangkhla Buri, or in Chiang Mai, and worked with them for a few months, for a few years, or for several decades, can be counted in the hundreds..."
Source/publisher:
Teacircleoxford
Date of publication:
2018-02-14
Date of entry/update:
2018-03-20
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"As Myanmar?s government prepares for a long-delayed second round of its Union Peace Conference, also known as the ?21st Century Panglong?, it remains unclear which of the many conflict parties will actually attend. Some ethnic armed groups that did not sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) indeed remain locked in combat and are likely to abstain. To government officials and international donors, it thus seems all the more important that the country?s oldest ethnic insurgency, the Karen National Union (KNU), supports the government-led peace process. A closer look, however, casts doubt on the degree of this support and points to wider, significant shortcomings within Myanmar?s national peace process.
At first glance, the KNU indeed seems like an important champion of Myanmar?s official peace process. This is even more so after its conciliatory Chairman Gen Mutu Say Poe cemented his position by winning the internal leadership elections on the 16th KNU congress in April 2017 against a less-compromising internal opposition, led by Naw Zipporah Sein. That said, the KNU?s rapprochement with Naypyidaw is anything other than self-evident. In fact, the KNU has long been regarded as Myanmar?s least compromising rebellion. It has, for instance, continued its armed struggle at a time when most other ethnic insurgencies in Myanmar entered bilateral ceasefire agreements during the 1990s and 2000s. Only after Myanmar?s military leaders initiated wide-ranging political reforms in 2011, the movement agreed to a historic ceasefire on 12 January 2012.
Against the background of Myanmar?s transition, the movement?s changing outlook has often been regarded as the direct outcome of wider political change. While this seems intuitive, political transition cannot account for the simultaneous escalation of conflict with rebel groups whose own long-standing ceasefires collapse, most importantly with the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO). It is also ill-suited to explain the mounting tensions that have emerged within the KNU between a pro-ceasefire leadership and an internal opposition that criticises the movement?s rapid rapprochement with the government.
KNU leader, Chairman Gen Mutu Say Poe (left), and leader of the internal KNU opposition, previous Vice-Chairman Naw Zipporah Sein (right). Photo: David Brenner..."
David Brenner
Source/publisher:
"New Mandala"
Date of publication:
2017-05-10
Date of entry/update:
2017-12-22
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"Nerdah Bo Mya is a Major General and the Chief of Staff of the Karen National Defence Organization (KNDO), which was founded in 1947 to protect the Karen people and territory, and is under its mother organisation Karen National Union (KNU). Nerdah Bo Mya, 48, was born near Manerplaw—the former headquarters of the KNU as well as other ethnic nationalities and the pro?democracy movement—as the son of the late General Bo Mya who was the President of the KNU from 1976 to 2000. After being educated in Thailand and in the US, where Nerdah Bo Mya spent six years studying a Liberal Arts degree at a university in California, the young graduate turned away from a future in the US and soon returned to the Thailand-Burma border. For over 20 years, he has fought for ?freedom, democracy, and humanity,” against what is undoubtedly one of the most brutal military regimes in the world. This dedicated and empathetic ?rebel” leader emphasizes that it is not just the Karen people but a whole nation of 60 million people who are still suffering and need to be freed. Although the international community has enjoyed what some call a honeymoon with the Burmese government since the country started opening up in 2011, according to Nerdah Bo Mya, the government is still not showing signs of sincerity in peace talks nor genuine willingness to change. ?The government is playing the game,” he says, and the international community too often indirectly participating in ongoing atrocities. In this exclusive interview with Burma Link, Nerdah Bo Mya talks about the struggle, the current state of the ceasefire and the peace process, the role of the international community, and how to build a prosperous Burma for the future generations."
Source/publisher:
Burma Link
Date of publication:
2015-04-07
Date of entry/update:
2016-03-17
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Individual Documents
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Karen (cultural, historical, political), Karen National Union (KNU), Armed conflict in Karen State - general articles and reports, Politics, Government and Governance - Burma/Myanmar - general studies
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"Soldiers explained that mutual respect between all parties is
needed for the peace process to be successful. Mutual respect was
often mentioned in relation to the need for adherence to ceasefire
agreements, reports of breaches to ceasefire agreements and
concerns about the sincerity of the peace process.
Generally, foot soldiers identified the need for all parties to respect
the terms and conditions of agreements equally. Soldiers expressed a
desire to create stronger links between what is discussed and agreed
upon in peace/ceasefire agreements and implementation. Specific
points of contention included soldiers carrying arms outside of their
demarcated territory when agreements restricted this movement.
Soldiers voiced a need for Tatmadaw soldiers to ask permission before
entering their territory. One KNU soldier expressed: ?Tatmadaw
soldiers bring arms when they come into our regions. Don?t we have
the right to hold arms? We follow the rules”..."
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2014-03-31
Date of entry/update:
2015-09-27
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Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Mon New State Party (MNSP), Various groups, Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), Karen National Union (KNU)
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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:
2009-11-30
Date of entry/update:
2013-06-03
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Individual Documents
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Karen National Union (KNU), Karen history, Armed conflict in Karen State - general articles and reports
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English
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Infighting and unsanctioned peace overtures with Burma?s ruling regime have left many wondering about the fate of the KNU, Burma?s oldest ethnic opposition group...
"As its 60th year of armed insurrection approaches, the Karen National Union is spending more of its time o?n internal skirmishes than in armed rebellion against its historic foe, Burma?s ruling military government..."
Shah Paung
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 15, No. 3
Date of publication:
2007-02-28
Date of entry/update:
2008-05-04
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"When news of the assassination of the Karen leader Mahn Sha broke, I was reminded of the advice he had once given me: ?Use your journalistic skill to help poor people.?
Two years ago, I visited Mahn Sha at his office in Mae Sot on the Thai-Burmese border. In our conversation, his left-wing enthusiasm was evident. It was an enthusiasm that he wanted to pass on to a younger generation—?We want more young people who will work for the sake of their country and people,? he told me..."
Violet Cho
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 16, No. 3
Date of publication:
2008-02-29
Date of entry/update:
2008-04-27
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Angesichts des britischen Verrats gründet der Karen Anwalt Saw Ba U Gyi am 5. Februar 1947 als ersten Schritt zur Selbsthilfe mit 700 Karen Delegierten aus allen Landesteilen die Karen National Union, KNU. Als politische Organisation soll sie den Einfluss seines Volkes hinsichtlich der Verhandlungen zur Unabhängigkeit Burma?s sicherstellen. Bereits im November 46 ist die mächtige kommunistische Partei aus der geeinten Front der Anti-Fascist People?s Freedom League, AFPFL Thakin Aung San?s ausgeschlossen worden. Aung San; Panglong Agreement;
The Karen during independence
Source/publisher:
Burma Riders
Date of publication:
2007-07-03
Date of entry/update:
2007-08-21
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Type:
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German, Deutsch
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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:
2006-07-31
Date of entry/update:
2006-08-22
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Type:
Individual Documents
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Karen Heritage, Karen history, Karen National Union (KNU)
Language:
English
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"After 57 years of fighting for independence from the Burmese, the Karen National Union is beset by internal divisions, a lack of resources and an aging leadership..."
Shah Paung, Harry Priestley
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No3
Date of publication:
2006-02-28
Date of entry/update:
2006-05-01
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Type:
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The troops of KNLA Battalion 101 stick to their guns... "...The KNU is one of Burma?s oldest and strongest armed ethnic opposition groups, and it has waged war with successive administrations of the Burmese government since 1949. Government troops overran KNU headquarters at Manerplaw in 1995, and since that time the group has lost ground in its fight for greater regional autonomy.
In the last decade, other political developments have weakened the KNU. Neighboring Thailand had for many years adopted a policy of tacit collaboration with the Karen and other armed ethnic minority groups along the Thai-Burma border, hoping that they would establish a buffer zone against any encroachment by Burmese forces. This policy has changed in recent years as Thailand seeks to strengthen its economic and political ties with Rangoon. Despite more than a half century of armed conflict, the KNU has since 1995 made several efforts to open diplomatic lines of communication with Burma?s ruling junta to negotiate an equitable ceasefire agreement. In 2004, then deputy chairman Gen Bo Mya flew to Rangoon to hold peace talks with ex-prime minister Gen Khin Nyunt. The meeting—backed by some of Thailand?s top military and business leaders—produced a ?gentleman?s agreement? to end hostilities in Karen State. Khin Nyunt?s subsequent ouster later in the year, however, ended any momentum towards an official ceasefire..."
Shah Paung
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 11
Date of publication:
2005-10-31
Date of entry/update:
2006-05-01
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Type:
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Rangun hofiert Karen-Kommandeur. Verhandlungen mit Rebellen über Waffenruhe. cease fire talks with karen rebells.
Thomas Berger
Source/publisher:
AG Friedensforschung an der Uni Kassel
Date of publication:
2004-01-22
Date of entry/update:
2005-03-01
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies), Karen National Union (KNU)
Language:
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"After almost 55 years of resistance, the Karen National Union (KNU) is Southeast Asia?s oldest insurgent group. The Irrawaddy spoke to deputy chairman of the KNU, Gen Saw Bo Mya, 76, about Rangoon?s latest political gestures and the future of the Karen struggle..."
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy" Vol 11, No. 8
Date of publication:
2003-09-30
Date of entry/update:
2003-12-06
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Type:
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Karen National Union (KNU)
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"The recently published memoirs of former Karen leader Gen Bo Mya offer a glimpse into the inner workings of Burma?s longest-running insurgent struggle..."
Aung Zaw
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 10, No. 5, June 2002
Date of publication:
2002-05-31
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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Type:
Individual Documents
Category:
Non-Ceasefire Groups, Karen National Union (KNU)
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"After more than half a century of struggle and nearly a decade of major setbacks, the Karen National Union remains defiant in the face of calls to lay down its arms.
By Aung Zaw
After 53 years of resistance against Rangoon, the aging leadership of the Karen National Union (KNU) is nothing if not defiant. Arguably weaker now than at any other point in its half-century-long struggle, the KNU and its military wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), have faced numerous setbacks in the past decade. But asked about the prospects of the KNU entering the dubious embrace of Rangoon?s "legal fold", Padoh Mahn Sha, the KNU?s general secretary, did not mince words: "Surrender is out of the question," he told The Irrawaddy recently..."
Aung Zaw
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 10, No. 2
Date of publication:
2002-02-28
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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The KNU leadership reshuffle looks to solidify internal support as well as present a more refined view to the rest of the world, report Aung Zaw and Moe Gyo.
Aung Zaw, Moe Gyo
Source/publisher:
"The Irrawaddy", Vol. 8. No. 2
Date of publication:
2000-01-31
Date of entry/update:
2003-06-03
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