Burma wages total war
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An injured KNLA soldier is tended by medics during the battle for Wah Lay Kee.
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[October 20, 2009] Burma’s ruling military junta currently has military offensives underway against a swathe of ethnic nationalities in the run-up to elections it says it has planned for next year.
The State Peace and Development Council also has warships in a standoff with Bangladesh, the result of more than half a century’s of the neighbour’ failure to demarcate a common border >>> Read article
KNLA adopts new tactics
[October 20, 2009] When two explosions rocked the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army compound in the middle of the night, destroying a bulldozer and excavator, the Karen National Liberation Army’s Special Warfare Branch headed for the hills.
It was a rude post-midnight awakening for the DKBA soldiers of Brigade 999, but they quickly assembled a pursuit team.
And they struck out from Ta-ah Tah village, straight up into unforgiving terrain of the Dawna Mountain Range.
They had been hit by a KNLA strike deep behind the lines, a tactic favoured by Karen National Union Vice President David Thackrabaw, and they knew there would be hell to pay for destruction of such expensive machinery >>> Read article
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Unauthorised meetings with Burma´s ruling junta, the SPDC, in Rangoon and Naypidaw last year ensured Nay Soe Mya’s ouster from his father's beloved KNU and KNLA. The KNU now regards him as a traitor ...
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