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- The Indigenous Tribes in Burma, the list below. The Karen mostly now, as they have their own fighting force but all have suffered opression at the hands of successive regimes of that country for decades. Forced re-settlement and labor, incarceration, ...
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Karen don dance group performs at the 2006 Karen new year celebration Photo: Felicia McMahon | | |
- Karens are known for eating a huge variety of foods, including jungle products such as snake, bat, monkey, grubs, bee larvae, ants, palm sugar, wild honey, forest herbs, frog, and lizard. Many types of birds and fish are consumed, and Karens raise chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle, corn, and pumpkins for food. A favorite dish for Karens in the forest is takataw, made by adding a handful of rice and some shreds of dried meat (often venison or wild boar) to boiling water, letting it cook until the meat and rice are soft like porridge, and then adding some chopped vegetables. Due to deforestation, crop confiscation, and rural dislocation, nowadays many Karens have trouble obtaining enough food for their families. Karen refugees and poor villagers typically live on rice, chili peppers, some fish paste, and whatever greens they can gather. The Karens normally eat several helpings of rice at meals and for snacks. They eat mostly white rice now, which is less nutritious than red or brown rice. For flavoring, many people use monosodium glutamate powder, which comes from Thailand. Karens often chew betel nut, which comes from a species of palm and is combined with leaves and lime paste; it is a mild stimulant and stains the mouth bright red.
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- Karen music includes traditional songs (many of which are love songs) Music that uses the repetitive beat of metal gongs accompanies such dances as the rice-planting dance and the bamboo dance, as well as wedding processions. In the bamboo dance, sets of eight to twelve long bamboo poles are placed in a grid. Participants kneel on the ground and bang the poles together in time to the music, while dancers step in and out of the openings in the grid. The Karens have several musical instruments of importance. The Karen drum is a symbol of the culture. It is round and made of cast bronze, often decorated with figures of frogs and elephants. The Karens play a harp called the t'na, which has five or six strings and is tuned with pegs along the neck of the instrument. Another stringed instrument is the large, wooden guitar-like haw tu. The pa ku is a bamboo xylophone played with hammers, and there are bamboo panpipes and mouth-harps of various sizes.
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- Karens are very hospitable and will expect any guests to eat with them and, if possible, stay overnight or longer. In traditional Karen bamboo houses, sleeping quarters for guests are on the veranda. Karens PRONUNCIATION: kuh-RENS ALTERNATE NAME: Padaung LOCATION: Southern and eastern Myanmar (Burma); Thailand POPULATION: 5 million (estimate) LANGUAGE: Pwo and Sgaw dialects of Karen; Burmese
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- A Story to read on line: The Older Brother; Karen
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- Free Burma Indigenous Peoples of the World - The Karen & Buffalohair: Indigenous Peoples of the ... Blog: Free Burma Karen Tell IOC No Torch For China! ...www.care2.com/c2c/group/FreeBurmaKaren - 158k - |
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- Why not for Burma? On Monday March 31, 2008, thousands of people in 84 cities worldwide marched for justice for Tibet--and delivered the 1.5 million-signature Avaaz petition to Chinese embassies and consulates around the globe.
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-  | Cyclone kills at least 351 in Myanmar, state-run... (AP) AP - A powerful cyclone killed more than 350 people and destroyed thousands of homes, state-run media said Sunday. Some dissident groups worried that the military junta running Myanmar would be reluctant to ask for international help. | |
- Hollywood starslend support to U.S. Campaign for Burma
http://news.guelphmercury.com/arts/article/323803
| | http://www.fanista.com/burmaitcantwait/ Erin Carlson
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston and Halifax actress Ellen Page are among those supporting a new campaign focusing attention on Myanmar's military-run government. Jim Carrey previously filmed a public service announcement to raise awareness about the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma, and human-rights leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been confined by the government for 12 of the last 18 years. But starting Thursday, the message will be on a much larger scale. A video will be released each day in May starring Ferrell, Aniston, Page, Sarah Silverman, Sylvester Stallone, Anjelica Huston, Woody Harrelson and Judd Apatow, among others. The celebs appear behalf of the Human Rights Action Center and the U.S. Campaign for Burma. The spots are more like short films than PSAs, and will be blasted across the Internet on sites such as YouTube and MySpace, Jeremy Woodrum, co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Burma, said. In Ferrell's bit, he nods to an unseen person when he correctly pronounces the name of Suu Kyi, who's under long-term house arrest. In rare serious mode, he concludes: "Every now and again, a single person or event captures the imagination and inspiration of the world. This moment belongs to Burma, and to Aung San Suu Kyi. Please honour her courage, honour your compassion and let this month be the month you join an effort to change the world." Suu Kyi received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her nonviolent efforts to overturn the regime led by Senior General Than Shwe. Suu Kyi's political party won the last general election in 1990 but was never allowed to take power. Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. The country captured world attention last September when Buddhist monks began the biggest anti-government protests in two decades. At least 31 people were killed and thousands more were detained when military rulers cracked down on the peaceful demonstrations. Organizers of the celebrity video campaign used their show biz connections to bring in Ferrell and company. Woodrum said the spots could possibly influence Myanmar's government leaders who recognize the famous faces. "When stars speak out, it undermines the military's authority in a different kind of way than when political leaders do, and it gives support and hope to the opposition," he said. The campaign kicked off Thursday, the same day President George W. Bush froze the assets of state-owned companies in Myanmar that prop up the nation's military junta, which has been condemned by the international community for suppressing pro-democracy dissidents. |
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BBC Bulgaria | | Four days after the Burma cyclone, which struck the flat agricultural area south of Rangoon, there is wretchedly little hard information about the victims. ... | |
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