Myanmar junta kills 14 rebels

Clashes between the Myanmar military and ethnic Karen rebels killed 14 people and forced at least 300 civilians to flee into neighbouring Thailand...

Clashes between the Myanmar military and ethnic Karen rebels killed 14 people and forced at least 300 civilians to flee into neighbouring Thailand, a rebel spokesman and a Thai military official said on Saturday.

The Myanmar military and the pro-junta Democratic Karen Buddhist Army launched attacks on Thursday against the Karen National Union, said David Thaw, a spokesman in Thailand for the KNU, the largest group representing the Karen.

Thaw said 10 Myanmar troops and four rebel soldiers were killed in the clashes. He said the military was “trying to pressure the KNU into returning to the negotiating table.”

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Col Phanu Wacharopas, a Thai military commander in charge of border districts in Tak province, said 300 people had fled across the border into Thailand.

Phanu said most of the refugees were staying in a Buddhist monastery in Umphang district near the border. He said the fighting had stopped and the refugees would probably return home soon.

The KNU has been fighting for half a century for greater autonomy from Myanmar’s central government. The Myanmar army launched a major offensive in Karen State in 2005.

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