Coordinates: 12°57′35″N 98°39′16″E / 12.9597°N 98.6545°E / 12.9597; 98.6545

Palaw

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Palaw Township
ပုလောမြို့
Township
Palaw Township is located in Myanmar
Palaw Township
Palaw Township
Location in Myanmar
Coordinates: 12°57′35″N 98°39′16″E / 12.9597°N 98.6545°E / 12.9597; 98.6545
Country Myanmar
RegionTanintharyi Region
DistrictMyeik District
TownshipPalaw Township
SeatPalaw
Area
 • Total2.73 sq mi (7.1 km2)
Population
 (2019)[1]
22,267
Time zoneUTC+6.30 (MMT)

Palaw (Burmese: ပုလောမြို့, Thai: ปะลอ) is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township.[1]

In 1948, a Bamar militia group threw hand-grenades into a Christmas Eve service in Palaw and killed 80 ethnic Karen churchgoers. This incident and existing interracial tensions sparked a series of retaliatory incidents and massacres between Bamar and Karen ethnic groups that culminated in the declaration of the Karen conflict war by the Karen National Union.[2]

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References

  1. ^ a b Myanmar Information Management Unit (September 2019). Palaw Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya ပုလောမြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Palaw Township Regional Information] (PDF) (Report). MIMU. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
  2. ^ Smith, Martin (1999-06-01). Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-85649-660-5.


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