Reports as recently as February 2010, state that the Burmese army continues to burn Karen villages, displacing thousands of people. [33] Many Karen, including people such as former KNU secretary Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan and his daughter, Zoya Phan, have accused the military government of Myanmar of ethnic cleansing.

Karen people (Sgaw and Pwo) live in several regions of southern and eastern Burma and call their homeland “Kaw Thoo Lei”. The largest Karen population is in the Irrawaddy Delta area, a vast agricultural lowland whose main city is Bassein.

2024年12月11日 · The Karen people are a diverse tribal group who have historically lived in southern Myanmar (Burma). They are the second largest ethnic group in Myanmar, after the Burman majority. Karen insurgent groups have been key elements in the sporadic civil wars that have plagued Myanmar since the country gained independence in 1948.

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.

Some Karen leaders claim that there are twenty million Karen people in Burma – or about forty per cent of the population. This is also obviously politically motivated and a gross overestimate. More realistic estimates state there are between six and seven million Karen people in Burma 2.

The Karen people began to inhabit what eventually became Burma about two thousand years ago. They traveled from Tibet and China and settled largely in the hills bordering the eastern mountainous region of Burma.

Although the Karen (Kayin) make up the second largest ethnic nationality group in Burma after the Shan, they remain a little documented people very much on the fringe of Burma’s history. Both the history and the population of the various Karen subgroups remain matters of dispute.

The Karen make up about 4 million (Myanmar government figure) to 7 million (Karen rights group estimate) of Burma's 55 million people. Approximately one-third of the Karen population in Myanmar lives in Kayin (Karen) State. They comprise about 50 to 60 percent of the highland minority people of Thailand.

Karen armed opposition to the SPDC contributed to an ever-increasing number of Karen internally displaced people and refugees to Thailand. Increased Burmese army troop deployment in offensives against the Karen in 2006 led to the continued use of forced labour by thousands of Karen civilians as well as by thousands of prisoners used for ...

2023年9月15日 · I am proud to be Karen, an Indigenous Peoples in eastern Burma. Karen have been persecuted in periodic waves by the military junta that has ruled Burma for most of the last seven decades. Hundreds of thousands of Karen have been forced to flee from the junta’s violent attacks, resulting in the deaths of thousands.