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	Info Mekong Karen Profile
		The Karen are an indigenous people to the southeast Asian countries of Thailand and Burma.
		Karen, unlike other large ethnic groups, are made-up of smaller subgroups who, in some cases, speak in their own dialects.
		To most people who are familiar with the Karen, they are known for their colorful traditional clothes, but they should also be known for their hospitality and friendliness which is readily extend to everyone.
	www.infomekong.com /karen.htm (4065 words)

	Untitled Document
		We the Karen people, in the spirit of fraternity, unity and liberty and for the sake of peace, stability, security and social progress, join together with the other nationalities of the land to be part of the Federal Union of _______.
		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.
		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.
	www.dictatorwatch.org /articles/karenintro.html (6087 words)

	A History of the Karen People of Burma
		By nature the Karen are simple, quiet, unassuming and peace loving people, who uphold the high moral qualities of honesty, purity, brotherly love, co-operative living and loyalty, and are devout in their religious beliefs.
		Progress of the Karen people in almost all fields was fast, and by the beginning of the 20th Century, they were ahead of other peoples in many respects, especially in education, athletics and music.
		The Karen State requested by the Karens was comprised of the Irrawaddy Division, the Tenasserim Division, the Hanthawady District, Insein District and the Nyaunglebin Sub-Division, the areas where the bulk of the Karen populace could be found.
	www.rainbowends.org /karen/history.htm (3762 words)

	Karenlinks
		Karens, unlike other large ethnic groups, are made-up of smaller subgroups who, in some cases, speak in their own dialects.
		To most people who are familiar with the Karens, Karens are known for their colorful traditional clothes and for their energetic and jubilant festival dances.
		She believes the Karen are losing the battle in keeping culture because the younger people are increasingly unable to read and write their own language, the women are unable to weave their outfits, and the children are more reluctant to wear their costumes.
	www.stolaf.edu /people/leming/karenlinks.htm (1496 words)

	Karen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Karen, a Danish or Norwegian first name derived from the Greek "καθερα" ("káthera") meaning "pure", similarly to Katherine.
		Karen (Sister Princess), a character in the Japanese manga, game and anime Sister Princess.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karen (113 words)

	Burma story about the Karen Tribe people
		The Karen live in isolated parts of Burma, and the SPDC does not allow reporters or tourists near the conflict areas.
		And it was their stories of the Karen resistance that brought a former soldier in the New Zealand army to fight with the KNU.
		The Karen population in Burma, about 3 million, is dwarfed by the Burmese population of about 47 million.
	asiarecipe.com /burstory.html (2030 words)

	Indigenous Peoples of The World - The Karen
		One Karen tradition that survives very prominently today is the making of their own and their fiance's wedding clothes by young women.
		In contrast to the Akha, Karen society is matrilineal.
		The Karen in Burma have suffered opression at the hands of successive regimes of that country for decades.
	www.peoplesoftheworld.org /text?people=Karen (1178 words)

	Karen People: Life in Picture
		The present-day Karens are but one of the dissatisfied groups, and this is not even taking into consideration politics and various contending parties that easily complicate matters further, engendering problems and conflicts that have been pervasive in Burma ever since gaining her independence from the British on January 4, 1948.
		There were three Karen villages or quarters in the Insein area; the Thamaing quarter in the south, closest to Rangoon, the Gyogon-Seminary area that lies some three-quarters of a mile to the north of Thamaing, and the Nanthagon-Taungthugon Karen village in the north and north-east part of the town.
		The Insein Karens refused to believe the bad news and yet it was true, and a real setback for the well-informed KNU leadership who had been banking on the speedy arrival of this reputable battalion.
	www.kwekalu.net /photojournal1/soldier/story6.htm (12918 words)

	Meet the Karen
		A missionary came in the 1800's and the Karen people flocked to accept Jesus because what was written in the Bible fit their oral tradition.
		The Karen people are a peace-loving, agricultural people.
		Karen men are often drafted into forced labor such as working on roads and airstrips or forced to be porters for the SLORC.
	home.earthlink.net /~susanirwin (749 words)

	People Search - People Finder
		Karen Bali, the founder of People Search is a trained counsellor, an acredited genealogist and experienced researcher.
		Karen can locate your relatives and act as an intermediary if necessary.
		Searching for descendants of common ancestors is Karen's area of expertise.
	www.people-search.co.uk (303 words)

	KarenPeople.org
		The Karen People of Burma: A Study in Anthropology and Ethnology
		The Karen are the largest of the ethnic minority groups living in the mountain ranges of eastern Burma and northwestern Thailand.
		Karen-speaking people are spread over a large area, mainly on the Burma frontier with Thailand.
	www.karenpeople.org (469 words)

	House of Lords debate on the Karen people
		The impositions suffered by the Karen people in northern Burma and the atrocities so graphically described by the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool, are an important example of that.
		The fate and the future of the Karen people are without doubt a matter of honour, not just for those of us who participated in the Burma Campaign during the last war but for all of us who now enjoy peace, thanks to the loyalty and bravery of the Imperial Indian Army in Burma.
		I have clear memories of the long string of refugee camps sustained by the VNHCR and the NGOs in Thailand stretching from the hill-tribe settlements of the Hmong and the Lao in the north, down to the vast bamboo and canvas huts beside the Cardamom hills on the edge of Cambodia.
	www.rainbowends.org /karen/lords.htm (11740 words)

	Friends of the Karen - People of Burma
		The Karens are generally thought to be one of the Mongolian tribes that traversed the central Asian plains, some moving further east into the vast lands of China, others turned south into South Western China and Burma and further down south into Northern Thailand.
		The British depended on the Karen for their loyalty and honesty and used Karen soldiers and police forces extensively on many occasions to keep law and order.
		In 1999, the interfaith refugee Committee of Southeastern Connecticut sponsored an ethnic Karen woman Drucie Bathin and her two children to come to the Untied States of America.
	www.friendsofthekaren.org (233 words)

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		The Karen people, despite being the largest threatened ethnic group in Burma, were excluded from the discussions that took place between the British Government under Clement Attlee and the Burmese Nationalists at the time of independence in 1948.
		The present Karen state (Kowthoolei) has a well organized military and political structure, and although not recognised by the Burmese government, has its own annual budget, taxation system, elected civilian government, armed forces and education and health services.
		As the rainy season gets under, many of these people will be forced through starvation to abandon their hideouts and run the gauntlet to the safety of Thailand.
	www.halcyon.com /pub/FWDP/Eurasia/si_karen.txt (1161 words)

	Karen Human Rights Group \| Documenting the voices of villagers in rural Burma
		The SPDC's scorched-earth 'clearances' of people out of the hills and its repressive development projects in areas it controls are leading to severe food scarcity, widespread disease and mortality in both contexts.
		The Karen Human Rights Group is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation of ordinary people in rural Burma.
		We work directly with people in their villages, the internally displaced, and newly arrived refugees in neighbouring countries in order to present a firsthand view of what daily life is like under the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) military junta.
	www.ibiblio.org /freeburma/humanrights/khrg/archive (1549 words)

	The Karen People
		The Karen hill tribe makes up the third largest ethnic group in Myanmar (after the Burmese and the Shans).
		Throughout history, Karen weavers have occasionally traded cotton cloth with the Burmese and the Mons, but most of the cotton cloth generated stays within Karen society for domestic use.
		The Karens use their skillfully crafted cloth in numerous ways, creating shoulder bags, blouses, skirts and trousers from the same basic material.
	finearts.truman.edu /Textiles/Karen.htm (211 words)

	Karen people of Thailand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Burma the Karen are fighting for independence via the Karen Liberation Organisation, but the Karen people in Thailand are happy to be part of Thailand.
		The Karen group, with a population of 300,000, is the largest hill tribe in Thailand.
		The parliament is in the process of adopting a new law in regard to the people who live in the buffer zone of the World Heritage Area, declaring that the buffer zone is community forest and the Karen people have the right to manage this area.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1993/116/116p18c.htm (589 words)

	Sgaw Karen People Group
		Geographical Distribution Population: The Karens are an indigenous people to the southeast Asian countries of Thailand and Burma.
		To most people who are familiar with the Karens, Karens are known for their colorful traditional clothes Foremostly, the Karens are known for their hospitality and friendliness which they readily extend to everyone.
		Sgaw Karen People Group - Geographical Distribution Population: The Karens are an indigenous people to the southeast Asian countries of Thailand and Burma.
	www.thaipro.com /z1010a/446_thailand.html (363 words)

	Karenni State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While movements of people have been taking place for over two centuries, currently three forms of displacements predominate within the state; conflict induced displacements, development induced displacements and displacements arising as a result of resource scarcity.
		They tried to persuade the Karenni people to join their would-be formed union of Burma, but Karenni leaders were not interested.
		The Karenni people refused to accept Burma’s rule and because of that, military administration was imposed on them.
	www.unpo.org /member.php?arg=29 (1618 words)

	The Karen People
		Their plight is largely ignored by the international community but their stories of terror and aggression from the ruling military junta and army is just as awful as any story of oppression.
		He is a friend of the Karen and we soon became aware of the trouble caused by the Burmese junta.
		As the Karen people have no passports and are not granted refugee status by the Thai authorities, they are between a rock and a hard place.
	www.webspawner.com /users/msbevbis/thekarenpeopleo.html (429 words)

	Amazon.com: Like Normal People: Books: Karen Bender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Like Normal People is the story of Ella Rose and her family, a blue-collar clan living in Los Angeles.
		Like normal people, Ella, Lena and Shelley must confront their lives, and with the resources available to each, accept themselves and learn to cherish each other.
		This seeming contradiction reinforces the central theme of the novel, that even the best-planned lives of normal people are a mess, that only by opening ourselves to the secrets of our soul and the hidden anguish of our hearts do we become truly human.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618126929?v=glance (2751 words)

	BMS World Mission - persecuted in burma
		Timothy Lak Lem, a Karen Baptist pastor, describes life in Burma’s so-called ‘fl area’ (a zone in the south of the country near the Thai border).
		The atrocities against the Karen, Karenni and Shan people of Burma will stop and that all the ethnic minorities in Burma will be treated fairly and not discriminated against or persecuted.
		The hundreds of thousands of Karen, Karenni and Shan internally displaced people facing severe malnutrition, disease and starvation will be able to obtain enough food and medicine.
	www.bmsworldmission.org /standard.asp?ID=203 (895 words)

	Aid Workers Forum: Karen People (Myanmar-Thailand) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A good point of the mission was to be able to reach people that waited 3 years for a doctor or medicine...
		A good point is that our head of the mission is a war journalist and in the last 2 missions 2 other journalists working for the national network came along with us and produced a 90 minutes documentary wich was on the air a month after we came back.
		Reports in Italy while we were in prison in Thailand and this documentary mooved somehow the spirit of the people, which is always good...
	forum.aidworkers.net /messages/138/174.html (706 words)

	Scandinavian \| People
		The last part of the project is a comparative study of language use and choice among 3rd generation Latino-American heritage speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
		Karen Møller Irving, Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl and Linda von Hoene.
		Co-author: Karen Møller and Grethe Vangkilde: "Survival Danish." Denmark's International Study Program, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1989.
	ls.berkeley.edu /dept/scandinavian/people/moller.html (313 words)

	STOP THE BURMESE ARMY GENOCIDAL MILITARY OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE KAREN PEOPLE IN BURMA. : LA IMC
		The Karen people are a national minority group in Burma who are fighting for their self-determination against the fascist Burmese military regime.
		Burmese military is known for their wanton cruelty against the Burmese people and the national minorities especially against the Karen people who have been fighting the Burmese military regime for decades.
		We ask the American people and other solidarity groups to condemn the Burmese army genocidal offensive against the Karen people.
	la.indymedia.org /news/2006/05/156129.php (536 words)

	Stumbling and Mumbling
		Maybe this was because lighter nights were cheering us up, or maybe because signs of improved business conditions were encouraging people to take risks.
		The more senior you are in the employment hierarchy, the longer you might expect to live compared to people in lower employment grades...The way work is organized, the work climate...all contribute to the social gradient in health.
		The obverse of the worship of people who have sought publicity is an implicit denigration of the truly admirable qualities of modest endeavour.
	stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com (5074 words)

	The Karen People of Northern Thailand
		The Karen We are the blank people, said a Karen man, interviewed about his culture.
		Karen, rooted perhaps in their legend that their culture was once great, but is now temporarily in decline.
		The Karen People of Northern Thailand - The Karen We are the blank people, said a Karen man, interviewed about his culture.
	www.thaipro.com /z1011b/805_thailand.html (366 words)

	Tarot of the Cat People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Karen Kuykendall, the artist of the Tarot of the Cat People, is called "the Cat Lady" by people who know her.
		The cats on almost every card of the deck were modeled on the ten cats that keep Kuykendall company while she works.
		The deck is set in the fantasy world of the Outer Regions, where the Cat People live.
	www.learntarot.com /cpdesc.htm (172 words)

	People Search in Britain: Karen Bali - Genealogy Professional Genealogist
		This does not take away from the love you feel for your adopted parents, nor should it diminish how they feel about you, it is simply natural curiosity to know where you came from biologically.
		The questions you want to ask cannot be answered with paperwork, they need to be answered by the people involved.
		Karen is an expert Genealogist and also a trained counsellor, the e-book will show you step by step how to find your parent, it will also talk you through the emotional side of your search.
	expertgenealogy.com /?x=KarenBali (589 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Karen Emergency Relief Fund Inc. exists for the sole purpose of helping a group of people in need --
		But nothing was done to end the killing, robbing and raping of the Karen people of Burma -- or to stop the oppression conducted by the illegal military dictatorship of that country.
		The Karen Emergency Relief Fund, Inc. works to ease the sorrow and pain of the Karen people who are suffering the horrors of ethnic cleansing.
	www.karenemergency.org (94 words)

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