After the outbreak of the Covid -19 virus affecting many nations, Karen leaders, Karen community-based organizations and local Karen people in the Salween Peace Park of Mutraw District, Karen State, Kawthoolei in Eastern Burma carried out their own Covid – 19 response program to prevent the transmission of Covid- 19 virus and related problems by using both Indigenous Karen knowledge and the plans of leaders.
This area is not under the Burmese Government administration. It is governed by the Karen National Union and the Indigenous Karen people who live there. These people do not accept support from the Burmese Government. Instead they have responded to this disease in a way is a demonstration of the Karen people’s self-determination.
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