SPDC documents reveal fascist regime
[November 28, 2009] Leaked documents from Burma’s ruling military junta provide shocking insight of the inner workings of a fascist regime bent on eliminating diversity within its own people.
The documents are detailed directives about how to assault ethnic minorities and decimate development of the Christian church in Burma. >>> Read article
Secret Genocide
Read the prologue of Daniel Pedersen's book on the Karen >>> here
DKBA, KNU groups hold talks
[October 27, 2009, 2009] Two major armed Karen groups who were engaged in fierce fighting earlier this year have held talks for the first time since 1994, according to sources close to the groups.
In a recent communication sent by an influential monk, Sayadaw U Thuzana, to both the opposition Karen National Union (KNU) and the pro-junta Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), the Sayadaw urged both sides to learn lessons from the past and bring an end to the conflict in the region.
The talks ended on the 16th October 2009 without an agreement due to differences on both sides. >>> 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 ...
For sixty years the Karen have been fighting the ruling junta in Rangoon and the regime has responded by attempting their systematic extermination. Pedersen examines the reasons behind the ongoing conflict and why the Karen struggle is being ignored by the outside world.
