Ninety-six year old Saw Maung Tin says he "will never forget the blood and the sound of villagers crying" during the massacre in his village of Kyoe Kone 72 years ago. (Frontier)
Ninety-six year old Saw Maung Tin says he "will never forget the blood and the sound of villagers crying" during the massacre in his village of Kyoe Kone 72 years ago. (Frontier)

‘It was a massacre’: when state militias targeted Karen villages in Yangon

As tensions peaked between Karen and Bamar in early 1949, Burmese irregular forces committed a series of mass killings on the outskirts of the then-capital that have never been officially acknowledged.

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