Tag Archives: Karen National Union (KNU)
Life in Myanmar’s resistance-held areas
Nikkei Asia, 18 August 2024 TANINTHARYI TOWNSHIP, Myanmar — The fading banner of Aung San Suu Kyi has seen better days. Riddled with bullet holes, it hangs outside the office of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy in Le Thit, a half-abandoned village on the banks of the Tanintharyi River in southern Myanmar. The NLD office […]
Myanmar junta soldiers left hiding in the bushes after humiliating defeats
The Sunday Times, 12 April 2024 From the Thai side of the bridge, they are invisible, but everyone knows they are there: Myanmar junta soldiers, about 200 of them, skulking along the bank of the Moei River. Until this week, they were part of the government forces defending Myawaddy, one of Myanmar’s most important trading […]
Frenchman Setting the Bar for Myanmar Chocolate
(Irrawaddy, July 2017) KAREN STATE — In dense jungle about 20 kilometers northeast of Taungoo, Jean-Yves Branchard hacks at thickets of vine with a stubby machete, pausing to contemplate a cacao pod blackened with disease. “The price you pay for being organic,” sighs the Frenchman, as sweat washes flecks of soil from his heavy jowls. […]
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