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Activists follow in the footsteps of the 1988 generation by finding refuge from the military regime in Myanmar’s eastern borderlands.

The KNU is blocking the food supplies because Karen people are affected by armed conflicts in the region and because the KNU refuses to support the junta.

Despite condemning Monday’s coup, armed groups who signed the National Ceasefire Agreement say they will stick with the peace process.

The Karen National Liberation Army said the military’s increasing troop deployments and its inability to follow the rules on movement have boosted tension.

The KNU has denied involvement in the killing of two troops and the boobytrapping of their bodies.

The military has arrested two privates for the murder of Naw Mu Naw, a 40-year-old ethnic Karen woman shot in Papun last week, after intense criticism from Karen civil society.