Reports from western Karen state say that villages and crops there are often torched.

来自西克伦邦的报道称那里的村庄和庄稼经常被人烧。

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Over the past week, separate clashes have also broken out in Three Pagodas Pass and Kyarinseikyi in southern Karen State.

在上星期，在克伦邦南部的三塔通地区和加林赛基地区（Kyarinseikyi）也发生了一些零星的冲突。

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To maintain their benefits and strengthen the identity of Karen people, some Karen elites intended to found a Karen state.

为了维护自身的利益以及增强克伦民族的认同感，某些克伦族精英提出了建立克伦邦的设想。

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Reports by the ethnic Karen National Union in some other areas [as well say attacks by the Burmese military started in early July in the northern Karen state of that borders Thailand.

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Karen Plaut heads the Department of Animal Science at Michigan State University.

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Soldiers are likely to remain in Karen state for the foreseeable future.

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Thompson cites a host of problems in Karen state and other ethnic regions, ranging from rehabilitating communities shattered by conflict to mounting land grabs that have turned the homes and fields of farmers into plantations, factories and dam sites.

NPR: Refugees Face Uncertain Future As Myanmar Opens

The young woman, dressed in neat slacks and a blouse embossed with a teddy bear, has heard the stories of how her parents fled Pea Ta Ka village in Karen state as Myanmar soldiers moved in to pillage, burn houses and kill.

NPR: Refugees Face Uncertain Future As Myanmar Opens