ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ကို ၿငိမ္းမဲ့တိုက္ပြဲ

SECOND EUROPEAN KAREN CONFERENCE WAS HELD SUCCESSFULLY

A Europe-wide Karen conference was held successfully on 28-29 December 2010 in Nyborg, Denmark.

This is the second time a European Karen Conference, organised by the European Karen Network, has been held in Europe. Karen communities from five countries; Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the United Kingdom, participated in the meeting.

The purpose of this meeting is to organise Karen communities in Europe to support the struggle for freedom in Burma.

Various issues related to the Karen people were discussed during the meeting including, the need to strengthen Karen communities across Europe, how to influence governments in countries where there are Karen communities, and improve cooperation with other exiled ethnic groups from Burma.

As the November 2010 elections in Burma did not bring change that the Karen and all the people in Burma want, EKN believes that through inclusive dialogue and the establishment of a federal democratic Burma, we can move forward towards real freedom that guarantees positive change and equality for all the people in Burma. EKN would like to welcome other Karen communities around the world to work together for the development of the Karen people.

EKN calls on the European Union and the United Nations to redouble its efforts to pressure the dictatorship in Burma to enter into negotiations with ethnic forces, and democracy forces led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, through tripartite dialogue. The EU and UN should take the issue of the Karen and other ethnic groups more seriously and bring them into Burma’s political process.

European Karen Network was set up in July 2009 with the aim to raise awareness about the situation of the Karen people of Burma, and Burma as a whole. We are the voice in Europe of the Karen struggle for freedom. We pressure European governments and the rest of the international community to do more to bring about democratic transition in Burma.

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Note to the editor:

Karen New Year celebration is taking place on 30th December 2010 following the European Karen Conference and it is organised by the Karen Community Denmark. 

At European Karen Network Conference, Denmark 28-29 December 2010.

At European Karen Network Conference, Denmark 28-29 December 2010.

ယူရုိပီယံ ကရင္နက္ဝပ္ ညီလာခံက်င္းပ

ေဒၚခင္ၾကည္ ကြယ္လြန္မႈ (၂၂) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အမွတ္တရ

နအဖ တပ္က DKBA ကို ထိုင္းေျမေပၚမွ တိုက္ရန္ ႀကိဳးစား

ဧရာဝတီ Thursday, 23 December 2010 18:49

 

ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ျမ၀တီၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဖလူးေဒသတြင္ တပ္စြဲထားသည့္ တိုးတက္ေသာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသား တပ္မေတာ္ (DKBA) ဗ်ဴဟာ (၁) ႏွင့္ ဗ်ဴဟာ (၂) တပ္ဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ားကို ေခ်မႈန္းရန္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ တဖက္ကမ္းမွ တဆင့္ ၀င္ေရာက္လာမည့္ နအဖ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္ (၅၀) ခန္႔ကို ယမန္ေန႔ညက လက္ဦးမႈယူ၍ DKBA က တိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

DKBA ဗ်ဴဟာ(၁)မႉး ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး ေက်ာ္သက္က"ဖလူးရြာမွာ အေျခစိုက္ တပ္က အင္အား(၅၀) မေန႔ည(၈)နာရီမွာ ထိုင္း ဘက္ျခမ္း မဲေဆာက္အပိုင္ မဲ့ကိုကင္းရြာကေန ကူးၿပီး က်ေနာ္တို႔ကို တိုက္ဖို႔ ဆင္းလာတာကို သိလို႔ ျပန္ တိုက္ထုတ္ လိုက္ရတယ္”ဟု ဧရာ၀တီသို႔ ေျပာသည္။

ယင္းတိုက္ပြဲေၾကာင့္ နအဖ တပ္ဖြဲ႕၀င္ တဦး ဒဏ္ရာရရွိသည္ဟု သိရေသာ္လည္း မည္သည့္ တပ္မွ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းကိုမူ အတိ အက် မသိရွိရေသးေပ။

နအဖ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ား ထုိင္းႏိုင္ငံဘက္မွ ၀င္ေရာက္မည့္ အစီအစဥ္မွာ ထိုင္းအာဏာပိုင္မ်ား၏ ခြင္ျပဳခ်က္ မရဘဲ ၀င္ေရာက္ ရန္ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခ မရိွေၾကာင္း၊ အလားတူ ၀င္ေရာက္မႈမ်ိဳးကို ယခင္က ထိုင္းအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ခြင့္ျပဳခဲ့ဖူးေၾကာင္း DKBA တပ္မႉး တဦးက ေျပာသည္။ 

မဲေဆာက္ အေျခစိုက္ အမွတ္(၄) ေဒသဆိုင္ရာ ကြပ္ကဲေရး တပ္မႉး ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး ဆူပါခ်ိဳ႕ထ၀ပ္ဖိလာခ်ိဳင္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဘက္မွ မည္သည့္လူမ်ိဳးစု လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႔ကိုမဆို ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း အေျခခ် လုပ္ရွားခြင့္ျပဳမည္မဟုတ္ဘဲ ေတြ႕ရွိ ပါက ဖမ္းဆီး အေရးယူျခင္း ခံရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားကို ေျပာၾကားထားသည္။

ထို႔အျပင္ ထုိင္းျပည္သူမ်ား ေလးစားၾကည္ညိဳေသာ အေရးႀကီး ပုဂၢိဳလ္တဦး ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္ ခရီးစဥ္ရွိသည့္ အတြက္ DKBA ႏွင့္ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္းအ႐ုံး KNU တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားက နအဖ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္းမ်ားကုိ ေခတၱရပ္ နားဖြယ္ရွိေၾကာင္း သတင္းမ်ားလည္း ထြက္ေပၚေနသည္။

အတည္မျပဳႏုိင္ေသးေသာ သတင္းမ်ားအရ ထုိင္းဘုရင့္ သမီးေတာ္ မဟာခ်က္ကရီ သီရိဒုံ မင္းသမီး ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္ သို႔ ယခု လကုန္ပုိင္းတြင္ အလည္အပတ္ ေရာက္ရွိလာမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ 

ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး ေက်ာ္သက္က"ဒီခရီးစဥ္ရိွတဲ့ အတြက္ ဒီရက္ပိုင္း အတြင္းမွာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဘက္က ဘာစစ္ေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈကိုမွ လုပ္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး၊ ဒီအေရးႀကီး ပုဂၢိဳလ္ကို က်ေနာ္တို႔လည္း ေလးစားၿပီးသားပါ၊ နအဖ ဘက္ကသာ ေလးစားအားနာရ ေကာင္းမွန္း မသိဘဲ အရင္တိုက္ခိုက္လာမယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဘက္က သင့္တင့္တဲ့ နည္းတမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးနဲ႔ ကိုင္တြယ္သြား ရမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္"ဟု ဆိုသည္။

ယေန႔ ျမ၀တီႏွင့္ ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အတြင္းရွိ ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ျဖစ္ပြားျခင္း မရွိေသာ္လည္း အခ်ိန္မေရႊး ျပန္လည္ ျဖစ္ပြားႏုိင္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ျမ၀တီခ႐ိုင္ ဖလူးႀကီး၊ ဖလူေလး၊ မင္းလက္ပံ ရြာမွ ရြာသား ၁၀၀၀ ခန္႔ ထိုင္းနယ္စပ္ အနီးရွိ ေက်းရြာမ်ားတြင္ ခိုလံႈေနေၾကာင္း ၎တို႔ကိုအကူ အညီေပးေနသည့္ မယ္ေတာ္ေဆးခန္း(MTC)အဖြဲ႔မွ ေဆးမႉးေစာေနဦး က ေျပာ သည္။

ႏို၀င္ဘာလ ၇ ရက္ေန႔က ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ က်င္းပေနစဥ္ ျမ၀တီၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အပါအ၀င္ ဘုရားသံုးဆူၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ ၾကာအင္းဆိပ္ႀကီး  ၿမိဳ႕နယ္မ်ားတြင္ စစ္အစိုးရတပ္ႏွင့္ DKBA တပ္မဟာ ၅ တို႔ တုိက္ပြဲမ်ား စတင္ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ေန႔စဥ္နီးပါး တုိက္ပြဲမ်ား ဆက္တိုက္ ျဖစ္ပြားလ်က္ရွိသည္။

မာနယ္ပေလာ က်ံဳဒုိးနား တုိက္ပြဲမ်ားျဖစ္

ေက်ာ္ခ | ၾကာသပေတးေန႔၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၃ ရက္ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ၁၇ နာရီ ၃၈ မိနစ္

ခ်င္းမိုင္ (မဇၩိမ) ။      ။ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအ႐ုံး ေျပာက္က်ားတပ္မ်ားႏွင့္ စစ္အစိုးရတပ္မ်ား မေန႔ မနက္ပိုင္းက တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ေကအင္ယူ ဘားအံခ႐ုိင္ဥကၠ႒ ပဒိုေစာေအာင္ေမာ္ေအးက ေျပာသည္။

ေကအင္ယူနယ္ေျမ မာနယ္ပေလာသို႔ အင္အား ၂ဝဝ ေက်ာ္ျဖင့္ ခ်ီတက္လာေသာ စစ္ဆင္ေရးႏွင့္ ကြပ္ကဲေရးဌာန ၁၉ လက္ေအာက္ခံ ခမရ ၁ဝ၆ ႏွင့္ ၆၁ တပ္ရင္း ၂ ရင္းကို အင္အား ၂ဝ ေက်ာ္ ပါဝင္သည့္ KNU တပ္မဟာ ၇ လက္ေအာက္ခံ ၂ဝ၂ ေျပာက္က်ားတပ္မ်ားက မေန႔ မနက္ ၇ နာရီက တုိက္ခုိက္ခဲ့သည္။

ေျပာက္က်ားတပ္မ်ားက ေမာင္းျပန္႐ိုင္ဖယ္မ်ား၊ RPG၊ AK 47 ႏွင့္ ဆြဲမိုင္းမ်ား အသံုးျပဳ၍ ခ်ံဳခို တိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ စစ္အစိုးရတပ္မွ တပ္ၾကပ္ၾကီး တဦး၊ တပ္ခြဲမႉးတဦးႏွင့္ တပ္သား တဦး က်ဆံုးသြားၿပီး တဦး ဒဏ္ရာ ရရွိသည္ဟု ပဒုိေစာေအာင္ေမာ္ေအးက ေျပာသည္။

သီးျခားအတည္ျပဳခ်က္ ရယူႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိပါ။

တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္သည့္ေနရာသည္ အစိုးရစစ္တပ္မ်ားတည္ရွိရာ မဲသေဝါႏွင့္ ကပ္ေနၿပီး မေန႔က KNU မ်ား၏ ခ်ံဳခိုတိုက္ခိုက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ေရွ႕ဆက္မတိုးဘဲ ယင္းေနရာ၌ပင္ စခန္းခ်ေနသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

“စစ္တပ္က ဒီနယ္ေျမကေနၿပီး KNU ကို အၿပီးေမာင္းထုတ္ဖို႔ ၾကိဳးစားေနတာပါ။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကလဲ ကိုယ္ရပ္ တည္ ရွင္သန္ေရးအတြက္ အဲဒီကိစၥအေပၚမွာ လက္မခံႏိုင္ေတာ့ အျပန္အလွန္ရင္ဆိုင္ တိုက္ၾကတဲ့သေဘာပါ” ဟု
KNU အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး ဗိုလ္မႉးေစာလွေငြက မဇၥ်ိမကိုေျပာသည္။

ထို႔အျပင္ မေန႔က ေကာ့ကရိတ္ခ႐ိုင္ က်ဳံဒိုးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ လို႔လဲ့ ေဒသ တြင္  ခမရ ၅၈၈၊ ၄ဝ၈ တို႔ႏွင့္ အပစ္ရပ္ပ်က္ျပားသြားေသာ DKBA ဗိုလ္မႉး ဘၿငိမ္း ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ ၉ဝ၂ တပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ား ရင္ဆိုင္တိုက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု ဒီေကဘီေအ ဆက္သြယ္ေရးဌာနမွ ဗိုလ္မႉး ခ်စ္စရာက မဇၨ်ိမကိုေျပာသည္။

၂ ဘက္လံုးတြင္ ေသဆံုး၊ ဒဏ္ရာရရွိသူမရွိေသာ္လည္း DKBA ႏွင့္ KNU ကရင္တပ္မ်ားကုိ ေခ်မႈန္းရန္ စစ္တပ္မွ ျပင္ဆင္ေနသျဖင့္္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ထပ္ျဖစ္လာဦးမည္ဟု သူကဆက္ေျပာသည္။

ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၈ ရက္မွစ၍ တလေက်ာ္အၾကာျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္မွ ေဒသခံ ၃ဝဝဝ ေက်ာ္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ မဲေဆာက္၊ ဖုတ္ဖရာ့ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ႏွင့္ အုန္းဖန္တို႔တြင္  လာေရာက္ စစ္ေဘးခိုလႈံေနၾကေၾကာင္း ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို အကူအညီေပးေနသည့္ မယ္ေတာ္ေဆးခန္းမွ သိရသည္။

“အခုဟာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြက မ်ားလာေတာ့ ခ်က္ျပဳတ္ေကၽြးလို႔မႏိုင္ေတာ့ဘူးေလ။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ တပတ္တခါ ရိကၡာေျခာက္ေတြကို လူဦးေရအလိုက္ က်ေနာ္တို႔က လိုက္ၿပီး ေဝေပးေနတယ္ေလ” ဟု ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို အကူညီေပးရာတြင္ ကြင္းဆင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသည့္ ကိုေနဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ထိုင္းအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားထံ ခိုလႈံခြင့္ေတာင္းလွ်င္ စစ္ၿငိမ္သြားခ်ိန္တြင္ ခ်က္ခ်င္းျပန္ပို႔မည္ စိုးသျဖင့္  ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား လယ္ထဲ ေခ်ာင္းနားတြင္  မိုးကာစမ်ားခင္း၍  ခိုလံႈေနၾကရ၍ ရာသီဥတု အေအးဒဏ္ကိုခံေနရေၾကာင္း သူကဆက္ေျပာသည္။

တုိက္ပြဲနယ္ေျမမ်ားတြင္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက စစ္တပ္အင္အားမ်ား တိုးခ်ဲ႕ေစလႊတ္ေနသျဖင့္ နယ္စပ္တေလ်ာက္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ဆက္တိုက္ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္ေသာေၾကာင့္  ျမန္မာဘက္က စစ္ေျပးဒုကၡသည္ေတြေျပးလာလွ်င္ ေစာင့္ေ႐ွာက္ကူညီႏိုင္ဖို႔အတြက္ ယာယီရြက္ဖ်င္တဲမ်ား၊ အိမ္သာ၊ ေရခ်ဳိးခန္း၊ အစားအေသာက္၊ ေသာက္ေရသန္႔၊ ေဆးဝါးတို႔ကို ျပင္ဆင္ထားဖို႔ ထိုင္းနယ္စပ္တေလ်ာက္ ၿမိဳ႕ပိုင္ေတြကို ညြန္ၾကားထားေၾကာင္း တာ့ခ႐ိုင္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမႉး ႏိုင္စမတ္ လိြဳင္ဖားက ဘီဘီစီ ျမန္မာပိုင္းဌာနကို ေျပာဆိုထားသည္။

Pinned down in Karen State

by Daniel Pedersen on Dec.21, 2010, under Burma reportage
KNLA fighting near Thai-Burma border

Karen National Liberation Army 'Black' Special Forces commander Htoo Htoo lets a 60mm mortar rip towards a Burma Army base camp in an area known as Maw Kee, close to the Thai border. The State Peace and Development Council base camp has been besieged for weeks now, the soldiers forced to live underground.
Snipers have make on Burma Army base camps

Daniel Pedersen

Mae Sot

Combined ethnic Karen armies have besieged three Burma Army base camps near the Thai-Burma border to the south of Mae Sot.

The camps – at Toh Kyo, K’ne Ley and Maw Kee – are the government’s closest footprint to the Thai border in this mountainous region.

More than 160 soldiers of Burma’s ruling military junta, the State Peace and Development Council, are pinned down, living underground, not daring to raise their heads for fear of attracting fire.

The Burma Army soldiers constitute the main body of government troops that once controlled the border with its former ally, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, which was employed as a forward fighting force.

The DKBA mutinied on November 7, the day of Burma’s much-maligned election, taking control of strategic points in the frontier trading town of Myawaddy.

Fighting persisted for two days before the DKBA pulled out.

Since then the DKBA has rejoined forces with the revolutionary Karen National Liberation Army, which has been fighting for an independent Karen state since 1949.

The two Karen factions first split in 1994.

The Burma Army base camps now besieged are on high ground, from where SPDC soldiers once commanded a comfortable bird’s-eye view as they directed their Karen allies during firefights.

But the wet season is now finished in this part of South East Asia and high ground is a liability, because streams fed by steady rains since June have dried up.

Now the Burma Army soldiers must make their own way down from hillside bunkers to access permanent water, making themselves vulnerable in the process.

The combined Karen forces have laid land mines and set Claymore booby traps on pathways leading to the creeks and their snipers maintain a silent, camouflaged vigil waiting for a chance to hit their enemies.

Drinking water for mere survival takes precedence over sanitary conditions and the SPDC troops now have not been able to wash for almost a month.

“Now they are really under attack,” said one KNLA “Black” Special Forces soldier.

“They’ve got a base camp at the top of the hill and the bottom of the hill is surrounded, we have snipers with .308 calibre rifles and telescopic sights at 600 yards, 300 yards and much closer, maybe not even 200 yards,” he said.

“They’re [the SPDC] spending most of their time underground.”

The base camps have formidable bunkers dug deep into what is now dry, rock-hard clay and the tops are armoured with hardwood logs.

Karen soldiers said foliage was very dense around the camps and it was difficult to see anything.

Nevertheless, on Saturday the SPDC soldiers were forced out of their bunkers in search of water.

They used M-79 grenade launchers to clear a path through landmines to gather drinking water.

One of the Karen snipers said, because of the dense foliage, night time had become an ally.

“Any time they turn on a light they get shot at.

“One guy lit a cigarette, he was shot, I don’t know whether I killed him or not, but the lights went out and the cigarette went down – that was from 600 yards,” the sniper said.

He also wounded another soldier in the leg at 1068 yards.

“I’m using a .308 Remington model 700 with a mid-range Bushnell scope, a 24-power variable magnification adjustable scope,” he said.

“So after that, they moved most of their troops to the other side [of the hilltop], mainly to get away from the snipers and a Chinese-made .50 calibre machine gun we’re using, but then on the other side we hit them with RPGs [rocket-propelled grenades] and 60mm mortars,” he said.

Their position, on the whole, was “not very good” he said, “really not good.”

“They’ve been on the radio begging for recruits to back them up, but they have been refused because three base camps in the area are all under attack.”

Other soldiers said there had been some return fire.

“There’s been some .50 calibre machine gun fire and some 81mm mortars but they haven’t come in on target,” he said.

“They really just don’t know what they’re shooting at.”

The Maw Kee base camp is the largest of the three under attack, home to between 80 and 100 men.

A little further north at K’ne Ley about 50 to 80 Burma Army soldiers are pinned down and “the only place they walk is back and forth in their holes”.

The most northern, and smallest, of the besieged government camps is Toh Kyo.

There too, the SPDC troops are stuck underground, with snipers at 800m, 400m and 200m

Ba Wa, the KNLA’s chief medic for the region, who has 15 medics at 10 different locations in the area, said the water supply to Toh Kyo had been surrounded with Claymore mines and land mines and snipers were laying in wait.

On Monday afternoon Ba Wa was at war with his mobile phone in Mae Sot.

Reports were constantly being called in about an ambush at Wa Shu Pu, between the Karen villages of K’ne Ley and Wah Lay.

A Burma Army unit of about 25 men was in the thick of a Claymore ambush and excited medics were calling their commanding officer to update him.

Terminating a final call before leaving town he said: “I’ve heard five [SPDC troops] injured by rifle fire and one has suffered a land mine injury, but it’s impossible to really know how many have been wounded because it’s still going on,” he said at about 2pm.

Ba Wa said his medics had been monitoring Burma Army radio transmissions and the men caught in the ambush had been reinforcements trying to sneak into Maw Kee.

The reinforcements didn’t get within a day’s walk of that besieged base camp.
Karen National Liberation Army 'Black' Special Forces commander-in-chief Colonel Nerdah Mya surveys the besieged Burma Army camp. By night a mere suggestion of light attracts sniper fire into the bunkers they are trapped in - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK

Karen National Liberation Army 'Black' Special Forces commander-in-chief Colonel Nerdah Mya surveys the besieged Burma Army camp. By night a mere suggestion of light attracts sniper fire into the bunkers they are trapped in - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK


A young Karen soldier shoulders an M16 as he listens for the radio call to move forwards - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK.

A young Karen soldier shoulders an M16 as he listens for the radio call to move forwards - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK.


Soldiers of the Karen National Liberation Army and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, now fighting together after more than 15 years divided, pile into a truck after being re-supplied with M-79 grenades on Sunday (DEC 19, 2010) - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK.

Soldiers of the Karen National Liberation Army and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, now fighting together after more than 15 years divided, pile into a truck after being re-supplied with M-79 grenades on Sunday (DEC 19, 2010) - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK.


A Karen National Liberation Army soldier stands ready to deploy another rocket-propelled grenade at the besieged Burma Army base camp near Maw Kee, close to the Thai-Burma border - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK.

A Karen National Liberation Army soldier stands ready to deploy another rocket-propelled grenade at the besieged Burma Army base camp near Maw Kee, close to the Thai-Burma border - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK.



Karen National Liberation Army 'Black' Special Forces commander-in-chief Colonel Nerdah Mya leads his mean to a new position below the besieged Burma Army base camp - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK.

Karen National Liberation Army 'Black' Special Forces commander-in-chief Colonel Nerdah Mya leads his men to a new position below the besieged Burma Army base camp - Photo: Mike Garrod, Imagine Pictures UK.

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