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Member of a group of SE Asian peoples,
numbering 1.9 million also living. They live
in east Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand,
and the Irrawaddy delta. Their language
belongs to the Thai division of the
Sino-Tibetan family. In 1984 the Burmese
government began a large-scale military
campaign against the Karen National
Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the
Karen National Union (KNU).