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February 25, 2026
KNU grants amnesty to over 100 prisoners
February 24, 2026
Chinese business boom sparks popularity of Chinese language courses in...
February 24, 2026
Karen and Karenni youths convene to bolster revolutionary efforts
Youths participating in the KYO Youth Empowered Society Camp
November 7, 2016
KYO Trains Youths to Take Part in Peace Process
The Karen Youth Organisation (KYO) ran a short course at a ‘Youth Empowered Society Camp’ to train youths on how to effectively participate in the...
October 31, 2016
Fear of Interrogations Prevents IDPs Returning to Mae Tha Wor
People displaced from the Mae Tha Wor area of Karen State by fighting are too scared to return home because they fear being interrogated by the Burma...
October 28, 2016
Sixty-Five Returning Refugees Arrive in Myawaddy
Sixty-five refugees from Nu Po Refugee Camp in Tak Province, Thailand arrived at a welcome camp in Myawaddy, Karen State at 2.30pm on 26 October.
The Splinter DKBA's statement on reunification with the KNU
October 25, 2016
Splinter DKBA Could Reunify with KNU
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (Splinter DKBA), which splintered from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), will only reunify with the...
October 25, 2016
Government Agencies Working on the First Return of 90 Refugees Back to...
The Karen State government is now making arrangements for the first return of 96 residents – 19 families – who have been living in refugee camps on...
October 24, 2016
Karen and Mon Armed Groups Leaders Agree on Measures to Try to Prevent...
Leaders from the Karen National Union and the News Mon State Party agreed more effort is needed to prevent territorial disputes between the two...
DPNS 28th Anniversary Celebrations.
October 21, 2016
DPNS Urges Army Commander-in-Chief to Stop Conflict
The Democratic Party for a New Society (DPNS) chairman, U Aung Moe Zaw, urged the Commander-in-Chief of the Burma Army to declare a nationwide...
October 21, 2016
Refugees from Mae Tha Wor Facing Difficulties
Over 1,000 Karen refugees who fled from Mae Tha Wor in Karen State to Karen villages close to the border with Thailand after fighting in September...
October 21, 2016
Over 90 Refugees to Return from Thailand to Burma
The Karen State government has been making arrangements for the return of over 90 Burmese refugees from refugee camps in Thailand back to Burma.
Meeting between leaders of the KNU and the NMSP
October 20, 2016
KNU and NMSP Reach Agreement to Prevent Future Conflict
Leaders of the Karen National Union (KNU) and the New Mon State Party (NMSP) reached an agreement to prevent future conflicts between each other...
October 20, 2016
Villagers Fear DKBA and Government’s Militia Fighting Near Kawkareik Will...
Soldiers from the breakaway Democratic Karen Buddhist Army clashed with the government militia, the Border Guard Force, in Htee Poe Zan village tract...
General Mutu Say Poe talks at the ceremony to celebrate the first anniversary of the NCA signing
October 18, 2016
KNU Chairman Says Nationwide Ceasefire has Weaknesses
The Karen National Union (KNU) chairman, General Mutu Say Poe, said that though the Burmese government and ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) signed...