Karen guerillas inflict severe casualties on Myanmar troops
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Myanmar military forms Peace Talks Committee. Image Source: IANS News
Kolkata, May 15 : More than 250 Burmese troops have perished in a week of fighting with the Karen ethnic rebels in a considerable setback in an area earmarked for regrouping by the Burmese urban rebel recruits.
The fighting has intensified this month after the Myanmar army launched an offensive against the bases of the Karen National Union (KNU) after receiving information that they were training and arming ethnic Burmese volunteers to raise urban insurgent units.
Hundreds have joined these outfits, among them Burmese beauty queen Htar Htet.
Karen Armed Group Leader Condemned for Backing Talks With Junta
Karen Armed Group Leader Condemned for Backing Talks With Junta
Myanmar Army Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing meets Karen National Union Chairman Saw Mutu Sae Poe on Oct. 29, 2019 at the military compound in Naypyitaw. / Thoolei News / Facebook
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By The Irrawaddy 11 May 2021
A public statement by General Saw Mutu Sae Poe, chairman of the Karen National Union, issued on Monday in which he urged stakeholders to follow the negotiation channel to solve Myanmar’s political problems prompted huge criticism in Myanmar, including from the Karen community.
The statement came after the military launched air strikes on civilians from late March to early May in retaliation for attacks on military outposts by Brigade Five of the KNU’s armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army.
Nearly 200 Myanmar Troops Killed in Clashes With Karen Forces
Nearly 200 Myanmar Troops Killed in Clashes With Karen Forces
Karen National Liberation Army says its attacks are to show support for the National Unity Government.
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By The Irrawaddy 6 May 2021
Nearly 200 Myanmar military troops, including a colonel and a lieutenant colonel, were killed in clashes between the regime’s troops and the military wing of the Karen National Union (KNU) in Karen State.
Military tension has risen in Hpapun area, Shwe Kyin and Thaton Districts, in Karen and Bago regions after the military wing of the KNU, Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Brigade 5 seized an outpost near the Salween River in Thi Mu Hta held by the military’s Light Infantry Division 349 on March 27.
Ethnic Armed Groups Unite With Anti-Coup Protesters Against Myanmar Junta
KNLA troops on Karen Martyrs’ Day in Karen State’s Papun District in August 2018. / The Irrawaddy
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By The Irrawaddy 30 April 2021
In the month following the military’s Feb. 1 coup, many of Myanmar’s ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), which have been warring with the central government for decades, said they opposed the junta’s overthrowing of the democratically-elected civilian government.
When the Myanmar military killed anti-regime protesters, people in urban areas longed for help from the EAOs in their fight against junta, believing that an armed response is the best hope of stopping the military’s atrocities against unarmed civilians.
Myanmar junta will only stop violence when ‘country stabilizes’ 2 minutes read
Bangkok, Apr 27 (EFE).- Myanmar’s military junta said Tuesday it will only fulfill the five points of consensus reached with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including the end of violence against civilians, when the country “returns to stability.”
In a statement published Tuesday by the ruling New Light of Myanmar newspaper, the military junta said it will “carefully consider the suggestions” of ASEAN leaders “when stability returns to the country,” as current priorities are “to maintain stability, law and order, and reestablishing “community peace and tranquility.”