| Karens also make their living by fishing in coastal areas, working in tin or wolfram mines, and gathering forest products like rattan and honey. |
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| The study reveals that Indonesians might have been the first inhabitants of Burma followed by Pyus, Karens, Chins and Rakhines. |
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| The Burma Rifles, which normally took recruits only from the Karens, Kachins, and Chins, had formed extra battalions by recruiting Burmans. |
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| Another important region for the Karens is the eastern border with Thailand. |
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| Most Burmese Baptists are members of the major tribal groups, including the Karens and the Chins. |
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| These events have transformed the usually stable Karens into terrified nomads and have turned many into stubborn rebel fighters. |
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| Civil war erupted, with challenges to central government by the Karens of the Irrawaddy Delta and the Chin, Kayah, and Kachin hill tribes. |
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| Government forces sent to subdue the rebellion actually drove more Karens into joining the rebels. |
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| Nearly 100,000 members of ethnic minority groups in Myanmar, mostly Karens, have fled to Thailand to escape the fighting in their country. |
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| Christabelle Naw, 14, is from one of Burma's ethnic tribes called the Karens. |
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| The same would apply, for instance, to the Tamils of Sri Lanka, the Karens of Burma, the people of Aceh in Indonesia and the Muslims of the Southern Philippines. |
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| But groups with their own states include the Karens, Chins, Shans, Kayahs, Arakanese, Mons and Kachins, and retain their distinctive culture and rural customs. |
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| The displaced people have taken refuge in the two camps since 1998, the officials said, adding most of them are Karens who fled fighting in Myanmar. |
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