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At least 30 people, including women and children, were killed in the eastern Myanmar state of Kayah on Friday, according to the Karenni Human Rights Group, with two members of international ...
The day started like any other at the school in Daw Si Ei village in the southeastern Karenni State’s Demoso township. Children tossed around a football, while others played and shared snacks ...
“I learned the Karenni were mostly Catholic and ... “Sixty, 80, or even 100 people gather in a house for Mass and little kids are running all over the place and enjoying themselves.
The previous night, the war refugee camp where she lives in Myanmar's Paekon Township, near the Karenni and Shan state borders, had been transformed into a scene of unimaginable loss. The ruling ...
I went home but didn’t tell my mother, then I went with him. —Koo Reh, recruited by the Karenni Nationalities People’s Liberation Front in 2005 at age 13 220 There are several dozen non ...
The Myanmar military has murdered civilians, and used them as human shields, in a series of atrocities in eastern Karenni State that may amount to war crimes, prominent human rights group Fortify ...
She fled a violent situation in her home country of Myanmar more than a decade ago and came to the U.S. with her husband and young family as Karenni refugees ... his five kids, along with ...
If Myanmar’s revolution is to succeed, it must tackle the patriarchal structures that underpin the country’s militarized political culture. Members of the Karenni National Women’s ...
It then violated that ceasefire, again and again. I went inside rebel-held territory in the eastern Karenni state for 10 days from mid-April. I witnessed daily violations by the junta, including ...
Traditionally, the local craftswomen of the Karenni community wove garments such as short skirts, head wraps, belts and capes, for a sense of ethnic identification.
Some 2,000 refugees, many dressed in red, from across the United States gathered in Waterloo to mark Karenni National Day with speeches, music and traditional dance. “This is one of the biggest ...