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Ethnolinguistic Groups of Burma/Myanmar Map of conflict zones in Myanmar. States and regions affected by fighting during and after 1995 are highlighted in yellow. Map of Myanmar and its divisions, including Shan State, Kachin State, Rakhine State and Karen State. Arakan. Ethnic group: Rakhine. Proposed state: Arakan State
The proposed state would have encompassed the territories of Karen State and Karenni State (present-day Kayin State and Kayah State), in Lower Burma (Outer Myanmar). The KNU has since shifted their focus from full independence to regional autonomy , under a federal system with fair Karen representation in the government.
The Office of Myanmar's State Counsellor also blamed ARSA for the killings of five Daingnets on 26 August [517] and seven Mro people on 31 August. [ 518 ] The mass-graves of 28 Hindus were found by Myanmar's security forces on 24 September 2017 near the village of Ye Baw Kya, [ 519 ] with 17 more bodies found on the next day. [ 520 ]
Myanmar's military is facing the biggest challenge to its grip on the Southeast Asian nation since taking power in a 2021 coup, after three ethnic minority forces launched a coordinated offensive ...
In 1057, King Anawrahta founded the first unified Myanmar state at Bagan. In 1287, the Bagan kingdom collapsed following recurring Mongol invasions, leading to 250 years of political divide. In the time period between 1510 and 1752, the area was united as Burma by the Toungoo dynasty, which was the largest Southeast Asian empire in the 16th ...
Throughout the siege, the Myanmar air force kept up a constant bombardment of Maungdaw, driving the last civilians out of the town. Its planes dropped supplies to the besieged soldiers at night ...
Myanmar’s military government faced a fresh challenge Monday when one of the armed ethnic groups in an alliance that recently gained strategic territory in the country's northeast launched ...
The Karen conflict is an armed conflict in Kayin State, Myanmar (formerly known as Karen State, Burma). It is part of the wider internal conflict in Myanmar between the military government and various minority groups. Karen nationalists have been fighting for an independent state, known as Kawthoolei, since 1949. [11]