“Sheltered to the north, west and south by steep, rugged mountains, Manerplaw was virtually impregnable. It was an ideal place for a camp, but it also showed how far east the Karen rebels had been pushed. Their first headquarters had been located in Insein, a Rangoon suburb. Then they had moved to the town of Toungoo on the main Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, before being forced to retreat to Papun in March 1950. When Papun fell five years later, the Karens moved to the hills around Hlaingbwe, an even smaller town in the eastern hills. Since the late 1960s, a string of new camps right on the Thai border were the only permanent bases the Karens maintained inside Burma. The Dawna range, parallel to the Thai border, was all that remained of the vast territory the Karens had once controlled, having been forced out of the delta in 1970–71 and out of the Pegu Yoma” Excerpt From: Lintner, Bertil. “Burma in Revolt.” Silkworm Books. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.
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