Karen National Defence Organisation

The Karen National Defence Organisation (Burmese: ကရင်အမျိုးသား ကာကွယ်ရေး အဖွဲ့အစည်း; S'gaw Karen: ကညီဒီကလုာ်ဂၢၤသးကရၢ; KNDO) is one of two military branches of the Karen National Union (KNU), the other being the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). The original KNDO fought against the government of Myanmar from 1947 until 1949 as the armed wing of the KNU, until the KNLA was made the official armed wing.[4][1]

Karen National Defence Organisation
ကရင်အမျိုးသား ကာကွယ်ရေး အဖွဲ့အစည်း
Dates of operation1947 (1947)–present
Active regionsKayah State
Kayin State
Tanintharyi Region
Mon State
Bago Region
Myanmar-Thailand border
IdeologyKaren nationalism
Federalism[1]
SizeC. 2,000+
Part of Karen National Union
Allies Karen National Liberation Army
DKBA-5
Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (until 2010)[2]
Karenni Nationalities Defence Force
People's Defence Force
Opponents Myanmar Union of Myanmar (until 2011)
Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (until 1988)
Union of Burma (until 1962)
Battles and warsInternal conflict in Myanmar

The KNDO closely followed the peace process instigated by the government, starting with the call for a nationwide ceasefire by the Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) in 2011. On 11 October 2015, the KNDO released a statement on the recently signed Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement.[5]

References
  1. Pike, John. "Karen National Union (KNU), Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO), Democratic Karen Burmese Army (DKBA)". GlobalSecurity.org. Archived from the original on 11 October 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  2. "Karen Armed Forces Statement on Reunification (ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ား ျပန္လည္ေပါင္းစည္းျခင္း သေဘာတူညီခ်က္)". Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. "Pyusawhti militia". Myanmar NOW. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  4. "Burma's War and ethnic cleansing of the Karen people". Archived from the original on 8 March 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  5. "Karen National Defense Organization Statement on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement". Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2016.


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