After the war ended, Myanmar was granted independence in January 1948, and the Karen, led by the KNU, attempted to co-exist peacefully with the Burman ethnic majority. Karen people held …

The Karen conflict is an armed conflict in Kayin State, Myanmar (formerly known as Karen State, Burma). It is part of the wider internal conflict in Myanmar between the military government …

The Karen are a large and dispersed ethnic group of Southeast Asia. They trace their origins to the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, or Tibet. Karen settled in Burma/Myanmar’s southern Irrawaddy …

Mar 9, 2025 · Karen, variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma), speaking languages of the Sino-Tibetan family. Constituting about one-tenth of the population, they are the second …

Although the Karen (Kayin) make up the second largest ethnic nationality group in Burma after the Shan, they remain a little documented people very much on the fringe of Burma’s history. Both …

Most Karen people in Burma live in Karen State and Tenasserim (Mergui-Tavoy) Division in eastern Burma. There are also large Karen populations in the Irrawaddy Delta and Pegu …

Some of the Karen story is tragic. As an ethnic minority they have endured much in post-colonial Myanmar. Christian Karen, about 30% of all Karen, are a religious minority in largely Buddhist …

The Karen people began to inhabit what eventually became Burma about two thousand years ago. They traveled from Tibet and China and settled largely in the hills bordering the eastern …

The Karen, pronounced Kah- Ren (emphasis on the second syllable), are indigenous to the Thailand-Burma border region in Southeast Asia and are one of the many ethnic groups in …

Sep 18, 2020 · The Karen are one of Myanmar’s many persecuted minority groups, hailing from eastern Myanmar’s Karen State. A year after Burma gained their independence from Britain in …