The fighting started after the PDF attacked two military bases at Khawmawi and Rihkhawdar in Chin state near the Indian border, he said, adding that the fighting continued till Monday.
The Karen National Union (KNU), one of the most powerful ethnic armed organizations in Myanmar, has been staging a long-standing revolt against successive governments for its autonomy and equality. The KNU has been taking up arms for over 70 years since the country’s independence in 1948. Therefore, the KNU is known to be the world’s longest-standing ethnic armed organization