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The enduring legacy of Karen revolutionary leader Saw Ba U Gyi
Travel to many parts of Myanmar’s Kayin State today – or Karen, as local people tend to call it – and a particular image will likely stand out. It’s a black and white photograph of a hirsute man wearing a beret and staring intently into the camera, and is not dissimilar to the famed picture of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara that adorns t-shirts and bedroom walls around the world.
But in contrast to the South American guerrilla leader, the man in this picture is little known outside – or even inside – Myanmar. He is Saw Ba U Gyi, regarded as the father of the Karen revolution, who led the earliest incarnation of the Karen National Union (KNU) before he was assassinated in an ambush by the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, near the Thai-Myanmar border on August 12, 1950 – 70 years ago this month.
Often seen below his image are the “four principles of the Karen revolution”, which Saw Ba U Gyi finalised at a KNU congress weeks before his death:
- There shall be no surrender
- The recognition of the Karen State must be complete
- We shall retain our arms
- We shall decide our own political destiny
“Are they still relevant today? The answer, unfortunately, is yes they are,”
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Karen People[]
The Karen people are a heterogenous group of ethnic groups that include many ethnicities considered distinct today, including the Kayah and Karenni. In modern times, a pan-Karen identity has emerged out of British colonial practice and Christian missionaries. The word Karen comes from the Burmese word for the people, Kayin.
The Karen people have legends of coming from rivers of running sands that may refer to the Gobi Desert or the Yellow River of China where Sino-Tibetan people, of which the Karenic people are a part, likely originated. The Karen people likely migrated to their current location in south-eastern Burma and western Thailand between the 4th and 9th century around the same time or earlier than the Burmese.
In 1885, the British took over the lands of the Konbaung Empire and took over the lands of the Karen in the same process. However, western missions into Karen country had begun in 1830 as Baptist missionaries found success within the Karen. The legends of the Karen talk about the creation of three brothers by God with a book g
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Laura Hornig
Burmese version make out this article
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Introduction
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