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  • Ethnic Karen from Burma take refuge in temporary shelters set up for them at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Ethnic Karen from Burma take refuge in temporary shelters set up for them at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Ethnic Karen from Burma take refuge in temporary shelters set up for them at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Paw Kaw Ya, 10, an ethnic Karen from Burma, holds her 2 year-old cousin, Paw Nay Htoo, at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand, where they sought refuge the day before. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Ethnic Karen from Burma take refuge in temporary shelters set up for them at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Ethnic Karen from Burma take refuge in temporary shelters set up for them at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Ethnic Karen from Burma take refuge in temporary shelters set up for them at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Mats and clothing are among emergency supplies of aid for ethnic Karen from Burma taking refuge at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Naw Hae Kler, a 10 year-old ethnic Karen girl with malaria, is bathed by her mother, Mu Ku Paw, 55, at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand, where they have found refuge for five days. Mu Ku Paw fled fighting in Burma with her five children aged between 8 and 18; her husband was shot and killed by pro-junta militia three years before while he was foraging for food in the jungle. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Naw Hae Kler, a 10 year-old ethnic Karen girl with malaria, is bathed by her mother, Mu Ku Paw, 55, at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand, where they have found refuge for five days. Mu Ku Paw fled fighting in Burma with her five children aged between 8 and 18; her husband was shot and killed by pro-junta militia three years before while he was foraging for food in the jungle. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Naw Hae Kler, a 10 year-old ethnic Karen girl with malaria, is bathed by her mother, Mu Ku Paw, 55, at the village temple in Noh Bo, Thailand, where they have found refuge for five days. Mu Ku Paw fled fighting in Burma with her five children aged between 8 and 18; her husband was shot and killed by pro-junta militia three years before while he was foraging for food in the jungle. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • A Thai soldier and a local porter carrying emergency supplies trek to the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma take shelter from rain in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma huddle beneath a temporary shelter in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma huddle beneath a temporary shelter in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Plastic sheets provided by the UNHCR provide temporary shelter for displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Plastic sheets provided by the UNHCR provide temporary shelter for displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Plastic sheets provided by the UNHCR provide temporary shelter for displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma receive emergency aid in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma take shelter from rain in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.
  • Displaced ethnic Karen villagers from Burma take shelter from rain in the remote Thai village of Oo Thoo Hta, near the Burma border. The 137 ethnic Karen families in Oo Thoo Hta, totalling 902 displaced people, represent less than a third of the villagers who fled their homes in Burma to seek refuge in Thailand. The exodus of over 3,000 Karen began on June 2, 2009, when Burmese government and allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) troops launched an assault against the rebel Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) in the Pa'an district of Burma's Karen State, combined with forced recruitment of villagers into the ranks of the DKBA. The DKBA is a breakaway faction of the KNLA. The KNLA is the military arm of the Karen National Union (KNU), which has fought the Burmese military since 1949.