Position Statement on Peace Talks Between the KNU and the Burmese Government

On 12 January 2012, a 19-member delegation, led by General Mutu Say Poe and Padoh David Taw under the supervision of the KNU Committee for Emergence of Peace, will begin talks in Pa-an with representatives of the Burmese government […]

A press release of the Karen Community Based Organizations concerning a peace talk between the Karen National Union and the representatives of U Thein Sein’s government

We, the Karen Community Based Organizations, welcome a peace talk between the Karen National Union and the representatives of U Thein Sein’s government […]

KNU Statement on Peace Talks

Recent media reports that the Karen National Union (KNU) had agreed to a ceasefire with the Burmese regime, along with several other ethnic organizations, was false. The KNU team of 3 representatives had had just an informal meeting with the regime’s Railway […]

Karen Communities Worldwide Call for Peace on International Day of Peace

Karen communities around the world strongly welcome the statement made by the Karen National Union on 15 September 2011, to call for peace in Burma on International Day of Peace on 21st of September. This is the second successive year the KNU have called for such […]

Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics

Ethnic people of Burma are having a hard time. Burma Army soldiers are targeting women in Kachin and Shan State for rape. Villagers are used as forced labour. Development projects mean forced relocation and slave labour. Half a million ethnic people are displaced in eastern Burma. Village schools have been burnt, healthcare is non-existent, farmlands are destroyed and more than two million Burmese have left to become economic migrants in Thailand. On top of all this, Thailand is now talking about closing the refugee camps and returning 144,000 people to an unsafe future back in Burma – landmines, little work and mass displacement […]

Open Letter to President Thein Sein and Ethnic Armed Groups

(Unofficial Translation)

The (post-independence) Union of Burma was co-founded by different nationalities. Like siblings from a single family, all these nationalities had cohabited this land since time immemorial. Therefore, forging peaceful ties and unity among the nationalities is of paramount importance […]

ဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ထံသို႕ေပးပို႕ေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာ

ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သည္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးစုမ်ားႏွင့္ ေပါင္းစပ္ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယင္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား အားလံုးသည္ ႏွစ္ပရိေစၦဒ မ်ားစြာကပင္ တေျမတည္းေန တေရတည္းေသာက္ အတူေနထိုင္ခဲ့ၾကေသာ ညီအစ္ကို ေမာင္နမမ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကပါသည္ […]

Statement of 8th Karen Unity Seminar

The 8th Karen Unity Seminar was successfully held from May 24 to 27, 2011, at a certain place in the area of Karen revolutionary resistance. The Seminar was attended by 117 representatives from 42 Karen organizations based at home and abroad.

At the Seminar, discussions were held particularly on the subjects of strengthening unity among the Karen people, current political situations in Burma and the sufferings the entire Karen people have to go through […]

KNU Statement on the Use of Karen Civilians for Forced Labor and as Human Shield by Burma Army

Though the leading members of the Burma government have shed their military uniforms for a civilian image and rule, treatment of the ethnic civilians by the Burma Army troops is the same as it has been under the military rule. As before, the Burma Army troops continue to perpetrate widespread […]

KNU Statement on Bombing near Capital of Burma’s Dictators

In an Agence France Press (AFP) report, datelined May 18, a bomb blast killed two and wounded seven civilians near billion-dollar, custom-built capital (Naypyitaw) of Burma’s military dictators and military controlled dictatorship government headed by former general, President Thein Sein. Without hesitation […]