The Pa-Oh People Defense Force-Kham Dom (PPDF-KD) has reported that on March 29, a drone attack by joint revolutionary forces killed six soldiers from the Military Council at their checkpoint station located at the Mokepalin Road intersection in Mokepalin Village, Kyaikhto Township, Mon State.
When a Myanmar air force fighter jet roared over Tak Province in Thailand last month, prompting the Thais to scramble jets and sending emergency calls for Thai schoolkids to take cover, the Myanmar junta’s war on the Karen people was briefly exposed to the world. The incident was short-lived and the Myanmar junta apologized to the Thai government. But what is largely a hidden war - diligently covered by independent media and through social media - was now very much out in the open, if only briefly. EMBATTLED KAREN