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March 29, 2021 One of the consequences of the European conquest of most of southern Asia was an insatiable interest in the region's geography. European-made maps at the time were full of blank spots or, at best, rough guesses of the exact location and height of certain mountains and the sources and accurate courses of major rivers. Ambitious individuals in the academic world sought to make their reputations by answering important geographical questions. By the late 1880s Great Britain had already taken over northern Burma and France had seized northern Vietnam and Laos. That put both countrie...

BANGKOK (AP) – Guerrilla soldiers from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority burned down a government military outpost late Friday after capturing it without a fight when its garrison fled, a senior Karen officer said. The position is approximately 15 kilometres from a larger camp that the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) stormed and burned 10 days […]

May 07, 2021 - 4:37 AM BANGKOK - Guerrilla soldiers from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority burned down a government military outpost on Friday after capturing it without a fight when its garrison fled, a senior Karen officer said. The position is approximately 15 kilometres (nine miles) from a larger camp that the Karen National Liberation Army stormed and burned 10 days earlier. The KNLA is the armed wing of the Karen National Union, the main political organization representing the Karen minority, whose homeland is in eastern Myanmar. The Karen and the Kachin in northern M...

Myanmar's Karen insurgents burn another government outpost May 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6In this photo provided by Karen National Liberation Army, a Karen National Liberation Army soldier holds a motor shell while standing next to a cache of mortar shells found at a Myanmar military outpost Friday, May 7, 2021, in Mutraw district, Karen State, Myanmar. Ethnic Karen guerrillas burned down a Myanmar military outpost Friday morning, capturing it without a fight after its garrison fled at their approach, a senior Karen officer said. (Karen National Liberation Army via AP)APSh...

Fighters from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority have burned down a government military outpost after capturing it without a fight when its garrison fled, a senior Karen officer said. The position is about nine miles from a larger camp which the Karen National Liberation Army stormed and burned 10 days earlier. The KNLA is the armed wing of the Karen National Union, the main political organisation representing the Karen minority, whose homeland is in eastern Myanmar. The Karen and the Kachin in northern Myanmar are the two major ethnic armed organisations that have allied themselves with the m...