Merit-making activities, such as almsgiving, are central to Karen Buddhist life.
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The Karen are often confused with the Red Karen (Karenni), which is one of the tribe of Kayah in Kayah State, Myanmar.
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The Shan and Karenni states were given the right to secession after 10 years, the Kachin their own state, and the Chin a special division.
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When a delegation of representatives of the Governor's Executive Council headed by Aung San was invited to London to negotiate for the Aung San-Attlee Treaty in January 1947, none of the ethnic minority groups were included by the British government.
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The Karen people aspired to have the regions where they formed the majority turned into a subdivision or "state" within Burma similar to what the Shan, Kachin and Chin peoples had been given.
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The Karen constitute the third biggest ethnic population in Burma, after the Bamars and Shans.
Nant Bwa Bwa Phan is the United Kingdom representative of the Karen National Union, a political organization representing the Karen ethnic people of Burma.
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The Foundation has four main objectives: To alleviate poverty, to provide education, to promote human rights, and to protect Karen culture for the Karen people of Burma.
Her mother is from Scotland and her father is a Karen (see Karen people) from Burma.
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to implement sustainable projects in cooperation with refugees of various minority groups, such as the Karen people and the Shan people, who are seeking refuge in Thailand and in IDP hideouts in the remote jungle areas inside Burma.
The Union of Myanmar (the official name of Burma) has regularly conducted limited low-intensity military campaigns against the independence movement of the Karen people in an area of southeast Burma (roughly corresponding to a Burmese administrative region called the Kayin State), which has actively pursued independence since January 1949.
Manerplaw is a city in the Kayin State of Burma and is also the suggested capital of the proposed Kawthoolei state that the Karen people of Burma have been trying to establish since the late 1940s.
Preecha Siri is a Karen Thai conservationist and environmentalist who is a community leader and role model for indigenous natural resource management.
# MRTV - state-run, operated by Myanmar Radio TV - broadcasts in Burmese, Arakanese, Shan, Karen, Kachin, Kayah, Chin, Mon and English
June 12, 2011 - The band plays a show in solidarity with the Karen People live in Bangkok.