Karen National Defence Organisation

Karen National Defence Organisation
ကရင်အမျိုးသား ကာကွယ်ရေး အဖွဲ့အစည်း Participant in the Internal conflict in Myanmar
Active	1947 (1947)–present
Ideology	Karen nationalism Federalism[1]
Area of operations	Kayah State Kayin State
Part of	Karen National Union
Became	Karen National Liberation Army
Allies	Karen National Liberation Army DKBA-5 Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (until 2010)[2]
Opponents	Myanmar Tatmadaw Union of Myanmar (until 2011) Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (until 1988) Union of Burma (until 1962)
Battles and wars	Internal conflict in Myanmar Karen conflict

The Karen National Defence Organisation (Burmese: ကရင်အမျိုးသား ကာကွယ်ရေး အဖွဲ့အစည်း; KNDO) is one of two military branches of the Karen National Union (KNU), the second of which being the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). The original KNDO fought against the government of Myanmar from 1947 until 1949 as the armed wing of the KNU, until the KNLA was made the official armed wing.^[3][1]

The KNDO had closely followed the peace process instigated by the government, starting with the call for nationwide ceasefire by the Ethnic Armed Resistance Organizations (EARO) in 2011. On 11 October 2015, the KNDO released a statement on the recent ceasefire agreements.^[4]

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