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• 1 jud // Feb 27, 2009 at 12:12 am

  Think news had been on New Era Journal,but only Burmese.

  print edition 188 january
  http://www.khitpyaingnews.org/print_edition/NEJ-188.pdf

• 2 jud // Feb 27, 2009 at 11:28 pm

  KNU Colonel faces trial in Thai Court
  New Delhi (Mizzima) – Leader of an ethnic Karen resistance group, Colonel Ner Dah Mya is facing trial in a court in Thailand, charged with illegal possession of a weapon , an official of the group said.

  Saw David Taw, a Central Committee member of the Karen National Union, on Friday told Mizzima that Col Ner Dah Mya , son of the late Karen leader Saw Bo Mya, was facing trial at the Tak provincial court in Thailand, after he was released on bail on January 19.

  http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/1774-knu-colonel-faces-trial-in-thai-court.html

• 3 Charles F. // Feb 28, 2009 at 4:42 pm

  The two telling sentences in the Mizzima article are:

  “He said the heightened bilateral relationship between the Burmese military regime and Thailand might have led to the arrest of Col Ner Dah Mya.”

  “I think, our Colonel [Ner Dar Mya] has been arrested because the Burmese regime pressurized the Thai Army,” Saw David Taw said.”

  The Thai army is being pressured by businessmen to put the squeeze on the KNLA so that they can continue to rape Burma for hardwoods.

  Additionally, Thailand stands to benefit from the hydroelectric projects being mounted in Burma.

  As one person who posts on here related to me, “the KNLA may be starting to circle the drain”.

• 4 jud // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:15 am

  Pressure mounts on KNU to move out of Thailand: Sources
  New Delhi (Mizzima) – Members of the ethnic Karen rebel group – Karen National Union – have began moving back into Burma, after Thailand warned them not to set up base in their territory, a source close to the rebel group said.

  The source, who did not want to be named, said KNU leaders had recently been told by Thai military authorities in the border town of Mea Sot, to move out of the town and to avoid Thailand’s territory for their activities.
  http://www.mizzima.com/news/regional/1802-pressure-mounts-on-knu-to-move-out-of-thailand-sources.html

• 5 jud // Mar 6, 2009 at 1:54 am

  Karen Rebels Under Pressure from Thais

  http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=15242

• 6 Charles F. // Mar 6, 2009 at 2:23 pm

  Without access to arms, ammunition, money and other aid, the KNLA cannot exist as a fighting force.
  The Thai military is strangling the KNLA in order to clear the way for its business dealings with the SPDC.

  Now that the gloves are off, the KNLA has no reason to honor any agreements it had with the Thai military to leave alone the oil and gas pipelines, as well as the hydroelectric projects being constructed into Thailand from Burma. Destruction of those things would really and truly hurt the Thai’s, who are counting on them.

  Besides battling the SPDC, the KNLA also acted as a buffer against the DKBA, which is smuggling narcotics and sex slaves across the border. When the DKBA begins to conduct incursions deeper into Thailand because the KNLA isn’t there to block them, perhaps then the Thai government will reconsider its position.

• 7 jud // Mar 17, 2009 at 3:54 am

  New bridge Mae Sod_bridge would be built in Shwe Kokko, a village in Myawaddy Township that is under the control of Brigade 999 of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA).

  http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=15310

• 8 jud // Mar 18, 2009 at 12:27 am

  Thais and bilateral trade> KNLA Leaders Still Barred from Mae Sot
  Saw David Taw, a member of KNU central executive committee, said that Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) senior leaders have been denied permission to re-enter Mae Sot since they were forced to return to Burma.

  “Many are worried that they can’t ever return to Mae Sot,”

  http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=15317

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