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Disaster on the Sittang: How Japanese Forces Smashed the 17th Indian Division in Burma The 17th Indian Division was virtually destroyed in combat against the Japanese in the Burmese jungle in 1942. Here's What You Need to Know: When it was all over, the 17th Indian Division was thoroughly wrecked. The Japanese looked unstoppable. Two divisions of the 15th Army had crossed from Thailand into Burma in mid-January 1942, bent on capturing Rangoon before the British could land reinforcements and block the seizing of the Burma Road. Burma was critical to the entire Allied defense of the Far East. By taking Rangoon and then the Burma Road, the Japanese would cut the vital land link to China, where half of the Imperial Army was already tied down fighting Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist forces. Burma was also the gateway to India, and Rangoon was the key to everything. In addition to being Burma’s administrative capital, it was a crucial communications and industrial center and had the only port capable of handling troop ships. The loss of Rangoon would mean the loss of Burma.
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KNU claims Burma Army forcible recruiting Karen villagers for militia The Karen National Union claim move by the Burma Army to force Karen villagers to attend militia training will damage trust between the two sides during ongoing ‘peacetalks’. The KNU alleges that the Burma Army has ordered Karen villagers in Southern Burma to attend military training and then intends to supply them with weapons. According to a KNU’s Mergui-Tavoy District source, on 15 November, the Burma Army Coastal Region Military Command ordered their troops in the east of Tenasserim division to demand villagers from Kwe Waw Wah (Aing Wai), Kasawwah, Ah Moe, Ka Maw Haw, Wah Daw, Ka Tara Kee, Htee Hta, Maw Hta, Htee Kee and Alesto to attend militia training, beginning in early 2013.
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Karen to ban alcohol sales to gold miners Karen National Union (KNU) officers, in Ler Mu Lah Township, have imposed restrictions on alcohol sales from May 1 to the thousands of gold miners who come to the area prospecting for gold. KNU officials have put in the alcohol restrictions in an attempt to prevent problems between miners and local and in an effort to maintain Karen traditional values. The KNU’s Ler Mu Lah Township chairman, P’doh Saw Eh Kaw, spoke to Karen News about the issue. “For a long time in areas under KNU control there was no open selling of alcohol. Now alcohol is sold everywhere and is widespread. We have made a decision to reduce the usage of alcohol from the beginning of
Rat Attack Against The Grain P’doh Saw Htee Wah, secretary of the Karen National Union’s (KNU) Tenaseerim Township, told Karen News. “Villagers in the areas of Ma Noe Ro, Ta Ket, Pa Wat, Kay are facing a huge problem as rats attack their crops at night and destroyed in some cases their entire crop. Some villagers lost all crop in a few days. We are trying to collect data to gauge the total destruction of rice crops in the area.” The affected villages are in the area of Tenasserim Township, east of Myeik Town. P’doh Saw Htee Wah said information the KNU had collected showed that villagers crops destroyed by the rats affected four villages – as many as 136 households.
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