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US ambassador and KNU discuss development, peace
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The Karen National Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Karen National Union on Tuesday attacked and seized a military outpost in eastern Myanmar, close to the border with north-western Thailand.
“Our troops captured the Burmese military camp,” KNU foreign affairs chief Padoh Sah Taw Nee told media.
Fighting occurred near the Salween river which seperates Myanmar and Thailand. Thai villagers could hear gunfire from the clashes.
The Karen National Liberation Army, the armed wing of the Karen National Union, has been battling Myanmar’s government since 1949.
Nationalists from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority ultimately seek their own independent state, with rebels also calling for a federal system of government.