In two years, the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force has expanded to 22 battalions with over 7,000 troops, right on the border of the regime’s Naypyitaw fortress.
Pregnant women and babies are dying in Kayah State due to a lack of healthcare and medicine, while food shortages affect hundreds of thousands of refugees.
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More than 700 refugees from Myanmar’s embattled Kayah state are in dire need of assistance after fleeing fierce fighting between junta troops and a branch of the Karenni National Defense Force (KNDF) militia formed to protect them from military offensives, sources said Thursday.
Aid workers told RFA’s Myanmar Service that more than 330 women and children are among the refugees who were forced to walk through the jungle for nearly a week to reach areas of the state along the border with Thailand that are under the control of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) the political wing of the ethnic rebel Karenni Army (KA).