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Palaw
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- မကျည်းကုန်း Ma Gye Kone
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- တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း
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- မြန်မာ
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Palaw (, ) is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township.
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.
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