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U.S. Department of State Counselor Tom Sullivan held a virtual meeting with pro-democratic resistance organizations
On August 15, U.S. Department of State Counselor Tom Sullivan held a virtual meeting with pro-democratic resistance organizations advocating for reforms in Myanmar. Padoh Saw Tah Doh Moo, General Secretary of KNU, and Padoh Saw Taw Nee, Head of KNU’s Foreign Affairs Department participated in the meeting.Key points of the discussions included the current U.S. policy, alliance-building among pro-democracy and resistance organization, planning for federal democracy, improving local governance, and preparing for inclusive dialogue. The importance of maintaining pressure on the military regime and promoting accountability for human rights abuses was also underscored.Counselor Sullivan emphasized the United States' ongoing commitment to supporting pro-democracy actors through direct assistance.... ...
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Battles against the SAC’s forces in the first 6 months of 2024.
July 12th 2024, KNU-Central.Approximately 1,827 battles of Karen National Liberation Army (K.N.L.A), Karen National Defense Force (K.N.D.O) with the allied troops against the SAC’s forces in KNU Kawthoolei Administrative Area, killing 1,903 and injuring 1,827 members of the forces.A total number of 81 members of the K.N.L.A, K.N.D.O and the allied troops had sacrificed their lives for the country and the nations, and almost three hundred (298) had been injured. ...
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Inventory and Summary of Human Rights Violations committed by the Myanmar military junta forces in the first months of 2024 in Kawthoolei Administrative Area
July 12th, 2024, KNU-Central.According to the records of the KNU-Karen National Union's Information and Release Center (Headquarters), in the Kawthoolei administrative area, the SAC’s forces brutally committed more than ten types of human rights violations in order to maintain their power and to gain control over Kawthoolei administrative areas in the first six months of 2024.The types and numbers of human rights violations committed by the SAC’s forces in Kawthoolei administrative areas are as follow-1. Air-strikes against civilians-850 times2. Heavy artilleries against civilians- 1249 times3. Done attacks - 106 times4. Arbitrarily shooting at the civilians- 11 times5. Planting land-mines on civilian roads- 37 times6. Arresting civilians- 22 times7. Burning civilians’ properties- 18 times... ...
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အာဏာသိမ်း အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်၏ Eurocopter 365 (၁) စီးအား (K.N.L.A) တော်လှန်ရေး ပူးပေါင်းတပ်ဖွဲ့မှ ပစ်ချ ဖျက်စီးနိုင်။
ဇန်နဝါရီလ (၂၉) ရက်၊ ၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ်၊ ကေအဲန်ယူ−ဗဟို။၂၉ ရက်၊ ၁ လ၊ ၂၀၂၄ ခုနှစ်၊ မွန်းလွဲ (၂:၀၀) နာရီ ဝန်းကျင်၌ အာဏာသိမ်း အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်၏ Eurocopter 365 (၁) စီးအား ဒူးပလာယာခရိုင်၊ တပ်မဟာ (၆) KNLA - ကရင်အမျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေး တပ်မတော် နှင့် တော်လှန်ရေး ပူးပေါင်းတပ်ဖွဲ့တို့မှ ပူးပေါင်း ပစ်ချ ဖျက်စီးနိုင်ခဲ့သည်။အဆိုပါ ဖြစ်စဥ်မှာ အာဏာသိမ်း အကြမ်းဖက် စစ်ကောင်စီတပ် အမှတ် (၃၂) ဗျူဟာပူးပေါင်းတပ်ဖွဲ့မှ ကေအဲယူန် - ဒူးပလာယာခရိုင်၊ ကော့ကရိတ်မြို့နယ်၊ မြဝတီမြို့၊ သင်္ကန်းညီနောင် အခြေစိုက် ခမရ (၃၅၆) တပ်ရင်းသို့ တာဝန်ချိန်းပြောင်းရန် လာသော မော်လမြိုင် ရတခတက် Mi - 35P Attack Helicopter (၁) စီး နှင့် Eurocopter 365 (၁) စီးတို့အား (K.N.L.A) တော်လှန်ရေး ပူးပေါင်းတပ်ဖွဲ့တို့မှ ဝိုင်းဝန်းပိတ်ဆို့ တိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ရာ Eurocopter 365 (၁) စီးအား ပစ်ချနိုင်ခဲ့ပြီး ထိုလေယာဥ်တွင် လိုက်ပါလာသော ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ် အေးမင်းနောင်... ...
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Inventory and Summary of Human Rights Violations committed by the Myanmar military junta forces in the Kawthoolei Administrative Area (2023)
January 18, 2024, KNU-HQAccording to the records of the KNU-Karen National Union's Information and Release Center (Headquarters), in the Kawthoolei administrative area, the Myanmar military junta forces brutally committed a minimum of 18 types of human rights violations in order to maintain their power and to gain control over Kawthoolei administrative areas during the entire year of 2023.The types and numbers of human rights violations committed by the Myanmar military junta forces in Kawthoolei administered areas are as follow-1. Air-strikes against civilians-791 times2. Heavy artilleries against civilians- 2075 times3. Shooting civilians by small arms- 4 times4. Arbitrarily shooting at the civilians- 26 times5. Planting land-mines on civilian roads- 40 times6. Abducting and forcing civ... ...
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A summary of the fightings that occurred in the KNU-Karen National Union administrative areas in 2023.
January (18) 2024, KNU-HQ. KNU - Karen National Union, in Kawthoolei-administered areas, there was a total number of 4,623 clashes; between the military junta forces who agressively encroached and based their military posts in our territories, and the revolutionary joint forces under the leadership of the Karen National Liberation Army (K.N.L.A) and the Karen National Defense Force (K.N.D.O) took place in 2023.During the 4,623 clashes, a total of 5,005 military junta soldiers including the officers and sergeants were eliminated, and another 3,345 military junta soldiers were injured. On the side of revolutionary joint forces under the leadership of the Karen National Liberation Army (K.N.L.A) and the Karen National Defense Force (K.N.D.O), 154 soldiers sacrificed their lives for their belo... ...