Recent History
In 1994 a group of Buddhist soldiers in the KNLA, claiming that the KNLA was unfairly dominated by Christians, broke away from the KNLA to form a new force, the DKBA, which soon organised a cease-fire with the Burmese military government.
In 1995 KNLA lost Kawmoora and Myawaddy to the DKBA. This considerably reduced the KNLA's border trade taxation.
A group calling itself the Karen Peace Council (KPC) broke away from the KNLA in February 2007, and organised a cease-fire with the Burmese military government.
On February 14, 2008, Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan, the KNU secretary-general, was assassinated in Thailand.
On May 13, 2009, a senior Burma Army officer, Brig.-Gen. Kaung Myat was killed by the KNLA. He had been the commander of No 5 Military Operations Command. Next month, on June 19, DKBA soldiers started to attack KNLA Brigade 7 headquarters, which they then captured on June 23.
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