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	Burma story about the Karen Tribe people
		They sing the Karen national anthem, say a prayer and file onto a narrow path leading to the thick jungle beyond base camp.
		And it was their stories of the Karen resistance that brought a former soldier in the New Zealand army to fight with the KNU.
		Nevertheless, Nerdah Wah, the KNU's secretary for foreign affairs, is fighting a political battle to break the SPDC's iron curtain and travels the world to lobby for the Karen cause.
	asiarecipe.com /burstory.html

	National Democratic Front
		The ethnic nationals who have entered ceasefire with the military regime have been upholding the political equal right for all ethnic nationals, restoration of democracy, federalism, and self-determination right of all ethnic nationals, and solving political and ethnic crises in the Union of Burma in political means via political dialogues.
		When the Constitution of the Union of Burma was drafted, the leaders and representatives of non-Burman ethnic nationals had lack in constitutional issues as well as overly trusted on General Aung San so that without constitutional debate, the 1947 Constitution of the Union of Burma was adopted at the Constituent Assembly on September 24, 1947.
		The ethnic nationals residing in the Union of Burma (or) post 1948 Union of Burma were independent nationals within their own sovereign territories living under the different administrative systems commonly known as King, Sawbwa, Sawphia, Duwa, and Chief until 16 century.
	ndf-burma.org

	Untitled Document
		Karen elders who have earned a high degree of respect during their lives are cremated after they die (rather than buried), and after a suitable period of time (a year or more) this ceremony is held.
		The Karen historically were (and for the most part we remain) a rural people, living in river valleys, plains and mountains, and engaged in subsistence agriculture and hunting and gathering.
		All KNU district representatives are permitted to attend the Congress, to nominate candidates, and to vote in the election.
	www.dictatorwatch.org /articles/karenintro.html

	karen.txt
		Non-Burman nationalities in almost half of Burma were separately administered, with traditional leaders retaining a degree of political control.
		The rights of the national groups were also recognized in the February, 1947, Panglong Agreement between Burman leaders and other national groups, in the commission of inquiry on the frontier areas and in the independence constitution of 1948.
		The non-Burman indigenous nationalities in Burma were politically autonomous before the area became a British colony.
	www.halcyon.com /pub/FWDP/Eurasia/karen.txt

	Karens on the 56th Anniversary of KNU Day
		Hand in hand with fellow oppressed nationalities and the democratic forces, we, the KNU, will struggle on until this evil system is dismantled and a democratic federal union is established.
		Like other oppressed fellow nationalities, the Karen people are deprived of the rights to freedom, justice and security.
		The purpose of the unification was to give a concerted leadership to the Karen people and to gain the right yearned for by the Karen people to decide their own political destiny.
	www.asiantribune.com /show_news.php?id=2333

	KarenPeople.org
		Karen National Union has a site with short information of itself, an introduction to Karen history and culture, news updates and press releases, and news highlights including mostly Thai newspapers clippings and much more information about youth issues, narcotics, women issues from the perspective of the KNU.
		The Karen Women's Organization is one of the 12 groups in the Women's League for B urma -- a central umbrella group formed primarily to give coherence to a number of very small projects and to make it easier for international donors to direct aid.
		The Australia Karen Youth Group is primarily a social justice organisation which advocates human rights, self empowerment and self determination of the Karen and other ethnic groups within a democratic Burma.
	www.karenpeople.org /links.html

	Peace Dialogues with the Karen National Union
		It called for tripartite dialogue with representations from the State Law and Order Restoration Council, the democratic forces and members of the national ethnic groups.
		The KNU leaders have no real intention to make peace, and their main concern is the survival of their organization with assistance from western bloc nations and the revival of their military and political situation through collaboration with other internal and external dissident groups.
		The KNU leaders faced with deteriorating situations in both the military and political spheres, then tried to build up the morale of its lower ranks and prevent the organization from total collapse by showing that it was still carrying on peace talks with the government.
	www.myanmar.com /Arm_Peace/KNU.html

	Untitled Document
		The reckless operations of the God’s Army, which was allegedly led by mystically-inspired Karen teenage twins, proved to be a propaganda coup for the perpetually embarrassed SPDC, a tasty tidbit for the international news media, and an excuse for the Thai government to further estrange its former Karen ally.
		While thousands of Karen were enduring unspeakable abuses at the hands of the Burmese Army, the news media tended to focus on the eccentricities of the God’s Army, including its use of boy soldiers.
		For generations, Karen born in the region experienced peace and prosperity, but that was before the Yadana pipeline project and the 1997 Burmese Army offensive.
	www.dictatorwatch.org /phshows/soldierstostudents.html

	National Guard on Encyclopedia.com
		In peacetime the National Guard is placed under state jurisdiction and can be used by governors to quell local disturbances, as in Newark and Detroit riots in 1967, and to help in times of local disasters, such as floods and hurricanes.
		The National Guard has been partially mobilized during the Korean War, the Berlin crisis of 1961, and the Persian Gulf War and for peacekeeping in Bosnia and Hercegovina.
		Article 1, Section 8 provides that Congress shall have the power to call forth “the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.” Congress was entrusted with organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, but the appointment of officers and the training of the militia were reserved to the states.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NatlG1uar.asp

	Australia Karen Youth Project
		The attack on the Hongsawatoi Restoration Party (HRP) by the Karen National Union (KNU) and the All Burma Muslim Union (ABMU) on the 18th of September in which 5 innocent children and 2 members of the HRP were killed requires immediate attention.
		Karen National Union, New Mon State Party Hongsawatoi Restoration Party,National Democratic Front, Ethnic Nationalities Council National
		6).Leaders of the National Democratic Front (NDF), the New Mon State
	www.akyp.org.au /MNULstatement.html

	Karen Guerillas
		National Union (KNU) and its armed wing the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) led the armed struggle.
		Today only a fraction of the KNU remains active and many Karens are living as refugees in Thailand.
		For a long time they maintained their own state, Kawthoolei or Karen land, in the east of the country bordering Thailand.
	www.photosbybjorn.com /burma_karen_guerillas.htm

	ABC News: Ethnic Peace May Be in Jeopardy in Myanmar
		A delegation from the Karen National Union ethnic rebel group returned Thursday from the Myanmar capital, Yangon, after a new round of peace talks with the junta was cut short because of the dismissal of the country's prime minister, Karen officials said.
		Dressed in Karen costume, former Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Khin Nyunt, left, and Karen National Union (KNU) leader Gen. Bo Mya share the latter one's 77 birthday cake when both men attended the peace talk between Myanmar government and Karen rebel in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004.
		The Karen ethnic guerrillas returned to their jungle bases Thursday from a peace mission to Myanmar's capital, staying only two days for what were supposed to be weeklong talks.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=187802

	Myanmar: "No place to hide": killings, abductions and other abuses against ethnic Karen villagers and refugees
		The organization nevertheless calls on the Karen National Union to strictly abide by international humanitarian law governing civil conflicts and to abolish the use of the death penalty in all circumstances.
		Amnesty International notes that the KNU continue to implement laws in their areas of control which specifically mandate the death penalty as the punishment for various crimes, including murder, aggravated robbery and adultery, although it does not yet have information on the frequency with which such punishments are carried out.
		Hence the fall of KNU headquarters at Manerplaw was the culmination of internal dissent and split in the KNU, and the armed conflict between the Buddhist Kayin forces (DKBA) and the KNU leadership.
	www.amnestyusa.org /refugee/document.do?id=F27A23897C06D7E9802569A5007152AB

	Resource Information Center
		The Karen National Union (KNU) bombed and attacked The Htimukhee Tatmadaw ("military government"), The Hweponlang Post, and columns in Bilin, Thaton, Pa-an, Hlaingbwe, Kawkareik, Myawaddy, Kyaikmaraw, Mudon, Thanbyuzayat, Yay, Dawai, Palaw, Tanintharyi and Bokpyin townships to continue SLORC opposition.
		The National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) was known as "a parallel government" to the National League for Democracy (NLD) because it contained many elected NLD candidates.
		The National Politics Front (NPF) was legally registered on November 14, 1988 and aimed to be aligned with democratic rights declared in the UN Charter and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights by primarily developing a state constitution.
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/MMR00002.htm

	From Political Aspiration to National Consensus
		It is now time for the Karens from all walks of life throughout Burma to congregate in a national meeting that will enable them to explore peaceful and lasting solutions to the problems that have plagued them as the largest ethnic nationalities group, the union and Burma generally.
		The Karens need a leadership that is not only committed to the Karen's collective vision of self-determination within a genuine union of Burma, but that is also skillful and inventive in policy making, intellectually and strategically flexible, and capable of adapting to and taking advantage of, new developments in Burma, the region and the world.
		While the KNU is the only organization that has been leading the armed resistance, it is recognized that several Karen groups and individuals have emerged lately and played their role throughout these years for the survival and development of our people.
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2004/news-in-apr/09-apr04-04.htm

	CSB Article: The New Challenge for the Karen National Union (KNU)
		The best mediators are former Karen leaders and National Democratic Front (NDF) leaders who live in exile or in Thailand.
		The Karen people have been harassed and killed, villages have been burned down and the population forced to work as porters by the Burmese troops.
		If the Karen signed the cease-fire agreement with the regime, KNU would have to restrict the anti-regime movement in their domain.
	www.csburma.net /html/ar_04001_knu.htm

	Karen National Union (KNU) / Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO)
		The Burmese government was tight-lipped about the talks, but a leader of the rebel Karen National Union, Lieutenant Colonel Nerdah Mya, said KNU delegates told him they went well.
		The Karen National Union, with an estimated 4,000-6,000 fighters, mostly carries out hit-and-run attacks.
		In 1997 Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council, or SPDC (formerly known as the State Law and Order Restoration Council, or SLORC) crushed the Karen National Union (KNU), the mainstream rebel movement, which has been fighting for autonomy from the Myanmar government for some 50 years.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/karen.htm

	BBC News Asia-Pacific Inside Burma with the Karen
		The rebel forces of the Karen National Union have lost most of their territory, but senior officers claim their guerrilla tactics are inflicting significant and regular losses on the Burmese troops.
		The forces of the Karen National Union have suffered serious military setbacks in recent years, but the nationalist struggle - one the world has often overlooked - shows no sign of exhaustion.
		It is 50 years since leaders of the Karen took up arms against the government in Rangoon to press their demands for a homeland of their own.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/257514.stm

	Encyclopedia: Karen National Union
		The Karen National Union (KNU) is an armed group operating in the border area between Burma and Thailand.
		The KNU has been fighting the Burmese central state since 1948.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Karen-National-Union

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - Burma Govt and Karen National Union reach deal
		But the Karen National Union says the ceasefire is only provisional, until further talks over political issues can be held, including a roadmap to democracy and a planned national convention.
		Karen rebels fail to agree on ceasefire with Burma rulers
		"This roadmap is not to go to democracy, this roadmap is to go to military rule, to get legitimacy, it is not to go to democracy, so we don't believe in this roadmap, we don't believe in this national convention."
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_1030841.htm

	Myanmar - Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA)
		The largest insurgent group is the Karen National Liberation Army of the Karen National Union (KNU), headed by 70-year-old Saw Bo Mya and based in Manerplaw before the brutal SLORC crusher offensives of the mid-1990s, which dispersed the remaining rebels to the jungle.
		The Karens are divided by religion, with Buddhist and Christian factions.
		The Karen battle for sovereignty has been ongoing since 1948, one of the longest struggles for freedom in Asia.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/myanmar/player4.htm

	Go Asia Pacific Breaking News Asia - Burma leader holds talks with Karen rebels
		The Karen National Union has been fighting one of Burma's longest running insurgencies, and is one of the last ethnic armies still battling Burma's military regime.
		Burma's military leader, General Than Shwe, has held an historic meeting with leaders of the Karen National Union, which represents ethnic Karen rebels.
		Analysts say a ceasefire with the Karen would be a major achievement for the military junta.
	www.goasiapacific.com /news/GoAsiaPacificBNA_1028687.htm

	Christian Solidarity Worldwide Australasia Inc.
		The National Convention’s delegates are handpicked by the SPDC, and the whole event is a stage-managed re-run of the failed National Convention that collapsed in 1996.
		This National Convention has been described as a sham by human rights organizations, Burmese pro-democracy and most ethnic national groups, and democratic governments around the world, because it is proceeding without the participation of the main pro-democracy party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), and most ethnic national groups.
		There are several indigenous ethnic national organisations which go cross-border to distribute humanitarian aid to the IDPs in the jungles of eastern Burma, and they provide a high standard of accountability and transparency to donors, with regular written reports, accounts of use of funds, video and photographic documentation.
	www.cswoz.org /index.php?page=content&idcon=1066

	KNLA - Karen National Liberation Army
		The Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) is the military branch of the Karen National Union (KNU).
		Since shortly after Myanmar's independence in 1949, the KNLA emerged to fight for the independence of the Karen state in eastern Myanmar.
		The enemy - Myanmar's ruling junta (SPDC) - have been heavily criticised by most human rights organisations for its continuing human rights abuses.
	knla.meabs.com

	No.24 Thai-Yunnan Project Newsletter March 1994
		The Karen National Union (KNU) always opens its doors not only to the Burmese students but to all Burmese democrats to live alongside the Karen people without any discrimination as long as they desire to do so.
		Recent indications are that the Karen continue their opposition to an agreement, adhering to the principled argument that a truce with SLORC must include a nationwide ceasefire and that talks must be held on neutral territory.
		Is the Foreign Minister of Thailand yearning for the old days of the National Peace Keeping Council and control of the press in his own country?
	www.nectec.or.th /thai-yunnan/24.html

	BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Burma rebel commander retires
		Last May, Gen Bo Mya retired from his position of chairman of the National Council of the Union of Burma, an umbrella organisation encompassing opposition groups in exile.
		The KNU is among a handful of ethnic groups in Burma which have yet to sign an official ceasefire agreement with the Burmese military junta.
		Gen Bo Mya's retirement was announced at the KNU Congress, which is currently taking place in a KNU-held area along the Burma-Thailand border, according to Irrawaddy, a publication run by Burmese journalists in exile.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4079785.stm

	Adherents.com
		There are also significant populations of Christians, mainly Baptists, and the Karen National Union leadership is largely Christian.
		"Karens; Location : Southern and eastern Myanmar (Burma); Thailand; Population : 4 million (estimate); Language : Pwo and Sgaw dialects of Karen; Burmese; Religion : Buddhism; animism; Christianity (Baptist, Catholicism) "; "Most of the Pwo and Sgaw Karens are Buddhists or animists.
		When Burma became independent in 1948 the Karenni State was incorporated in it.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_412.html

	Karen National Union - Infomations about Karen National Union
		Karen National Union - Infomations about Karen National Union
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	www.semantical.com /Ka/Karen_National_Union_504351.html

	Myanmar
		The military junta blamed the Karen National Union and the Shan State Army.
		In Jan. 2004, the military government and the insurgents from the Karen National Union agreed to end the fighting, but they stopped short of signing a cease-fire.
		In May 1990 elections, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) won in a landslide.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107808.html

	Burmese Karen National Union Leader Says Mandalay Could Become "Another Tibet" If Flow of Chinese Immigrants Not Halted
		Burmese Karen National Union Leader Says Mandalay Could Become "Another Tibet" If Flow of Chinese Immigrants Not Halted
		of the Democratic Alliance of Burma (DAB) and leader of the Karen National
		(KIC) and the largest group in the DAB after the Karen, were part of an
	www.tibet.ca /wtnarchive/1993/11/13_2.html

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