Palaw
Palaw (Burmese: ပုလောမြို့, Thai: ปะลอ) is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township.
In 1948, a Bamar militia group threw hand-grenades into a Christmas Eve service in Palaw and killed 80 ethnic Karen churchgoers. This incident and existing interracial tensions sparked a series of retaliatory incidents and massacres between Bamar and Karen ethnic groups that culminated in the declaration of the Karen conflict war by the Karen National Union.
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References
- ^ Myanmar Information Management Unit (September 2019). Palaw Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya ပုလောမြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Palaw Township Regional Information] (PDF) (Report). MIMU. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ Smith, Martin (1999-06-01). Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-85649-660-5.
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