19 relations: Abbreviation, Al Jazeera English, Arakan Army (Kayin State), Bo Nat Khann Mway, Buddhism, Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, Insurgency, Internal conflict in Myanmar, Karen conflict, Karen National Liberation Army, Karen National Union, Karen people, Kayin State, Myanmar, Myanmar general election, 2010, Myawaddy Township, Saw Mo Shay, Tatmadaw, Theravada.
Abbreviation
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning short) is a shortened form of a word or phrase.
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Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJE) is an international state-funded 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel owned and operated by Al Jazeera Media Network, headquartered in Doha, Qatar.
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Arakan Army (Kayin State)
The Arakan Army (ရခိုင်ပြည်တပ်မတော်; abbreviated AA), also known as the Arakan State Army (abbreviated ASA), is a Rakhine insurgent group in Kayin State, Myanmar (Burma).
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Bo Nat Khann Mway
Bo Nat Khann Mway (1961 – 13 March 2016), born Saw Lah Pwe and known by his nicknames "Bo Moustache" and "Mr.
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Buddhism
Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.
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Democratic Karen Buddhist Army
The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (တိုးတက်သော ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာ ကရင်အမျိုးသား တပ်ဖွဲ့; abbreviated DKBA) was an insurgent group of Buddhist soldiers and officers in Myanmar that split from the predominantly Christian led Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), one of the largest rebel factions in Myanmar.
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Insurgency
An insurgency is a rebellion against authority (for example, an authority recognized as such by the United Nations) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognized as belligerents (lawful combatants).
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Internal conflict in Myanmar
The internal conflict in Myanmar refers to a series of primarily ethnic conflicts within Myanmar that began shortly after the country, then known as Burma, became independent from the United Kingdom in 1948.
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Karen conflict
The Karen conflict is an armed conflict in Kayin State, Myanmar (formerly known as Karen State, Burma).
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Karen National Liberation Army
The Karen National Liberation Army (ကရင်အမျိုးသား လွတ်မြောက်ရေး တပ်မတော်; abbreviated KNLA) is the military branch of the Karen National Union (KNU), which campaigns for the self-determination of the Karen people of Myanmar (formerly Burma).
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Karen National Union
The Karen National Union (ကရင် အမျိုးသား အစည်းအရုံး; abbreviated KNU) is a political organisation with an armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), that claims to represent the Karen people of Myanmar (Burma).
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Karen people
The Karen, Kayin, Kariang or Yang people (ကညီကလုာ်, ကရင်လူမျိုး,; Per Ploan Poe or Ploan in Pwo Karen and Pwa Ka Nyaw or Kanyaw in Sgaw Karen; กะเหรี่ยง) refer to a number of individual Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic groups, many of which do not share a common language or culture.
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Kayin State
Kayin State (ကညီကီၢ်ဆဲၣ်,, ကရင်ပြည်နယ်,; formerly Karen) is a state of Myanmar.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma, is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia.
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Myanmar general election, 2010
A general election was held in Myanmar on 2010, in accordance with the new constitution which was approved in a referendum held in.
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Myawaddy Township
Myawaddy Township (မြဝတီမြို့နယ်) is a township of Myawaddy District in the Kayin State of Burma (Myanmar).
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Saw Mo Shay
Saw Mo Shay (စောမိုရှေး) is a Karen military officer and commander-in-chief of DKBA-5, an insurgent group active in Kayin State, Myanmar.
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Tatmadaw
The Tatmadaw is the official name of the armed forces of Myanmar (Burma).
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Theravada
Theravāda (Pali, literally "school of the elder monks") is a branch of Buddhism that uses the Buddha's teaching preserved in the Pāli Canon as its doctrinal core.
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Democratic Karen Benevolent Army, Democratic Karen Buddhist Army - Brigade 5.