Myanmar: Study: Despite Armed Conflicts, Indigenous Lands Have Better Environment Quality

Oct 19, 2023 | Spoorthy Raman, Mongabay
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For nearly 2,000 years, the Indigenous Karen people of southeast Myanmar have led a relatively tranquil life in the hilly forests that are part of the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. But in the last seven decades, Karen civilians have found themselves entangled in the world’s longest armed conflict, between the Karen National Union and the Myanmar military regime—a battle over self-determination that’s been a part of the wider Myanmar civil war.