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the Karen people of Burma by David Tharckabaw, Roland Watson (2003) San C. Po, Burma and the Karens (London 1928) Karenvoice.net, shares the information of Karen interacting in the world from the past, struggling in Burma in the present and transiting in the world again in the future; Karens Around the World Unite.
Karen languages are among the Tibeto-Burman languages, which are a branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages. [15] [16] Karen people began to arrive in what became Myanmar around 500 BC. [citation needed] They are believed to have come from the Mongolian region, traveling south through the Mekong Valley, the Irrawaddy Valley and the Salween Valley. [17]
They were independent until British rule in Burma, and had feudal ties to the Burmese kingdom. The states bordered the Shan States of Mong Pai, Hsatung and Mawkmai to the north, Thailand to the east, the Papun district of Lower Burma to the south, and a stretch of the Karen Hills inhabited by the Bre and various other small tribes to the west. [1]
The soldiers now encamped next to the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge were given at least tacit protection there by Kayin state's Border Guard Force, another armed Karen group that had been nominally affiliated with the military but announced last month they were cutting their ties and establishing themselves independently under the name of ...
Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority on Thursday claimed to have captured the last of the army’s outposts in Myawaddy township in eastern Myanmar, virtually clearing the way for them to ...
The Zayein (Burma: ဇယိန်လူမျိုး) are a sub-group of Red Karen (Karenni people), Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Myanmar (Burma). They are also called Lahta (Kayan Lahta) and Loilong Karen. The Zayein are native of Pinlaung and Pekon Townships, Southern Shan State, Myanmar. [1]
Guerrilla soldiers from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority burned down a government military outpost on Friday after capturing it without a fight when its garrison fled, a senior Karen officer said.
Karen state in Myanmar. The S'gaw, (S'gaw Karen: စှီၤ or ပှၤကညီဖိ, also spelled Skaw, S'gau), who refer to themselves as Paganyaw, Pga K'nyau, or K'Nyaw [1] (also spelled Pgaz Cgauz and Pakayo, [2] [better source needed]), are an ethnic group of Burma and Thailand. [3] They speak the S'gaw Karen language. [4]