Ethnic Karen people flee Myanmar for Thailand amid bombing, unrest

Ethnic Karen people flee Myanmar for Thailand amid bombing, unrest

Fighting has been raging in Myanmar’s Kayin state on the Thai border, with local ethnic militias battling the junta that seized power in 2021.

The ongoing fighting on the Myanmar side has resulted in another 233 civilians fleeing to the Thai side. On April 19, 2025 at 11:50 a.m., reporters from the Rajamanu Task Force reported that at noon today, the KNLA Battalion 7 (7th Division) together with the Karen National Defense Force (KNDO) Battalion 5 (5th Battalion) of the Karen National Union (KNU) used drones to drop bombs and attack the Myanmar soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment, th…