Myanmar's Karen mourn KNU leader's death - 23 Feb 08

Myanmar's largest ethnic minority group has been mourning the loss of its leader who was assassinated in Thailand.

Mahn Sha, the Secretary General of the Karen National Union, led the fight against the ruling military.

He was taken back to Myanmar and laid to rest on Monday.

About 400 Karen attended the funeral under a cloud of uncertainty as to who murdered their leader.

Hanna Belcher has this report.

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[Vuthapich]

Thailand the land of Terrorist government who paid for Protesters "Blue shirts" Red shirts" and Yellow Shirts!!! To ppls around the world don't trust the Thai government !!!!!

[buaqua1]

i know and i see thai pples deni everythings they do. they murder,Cambodia Refugee,Burma Refugee,Hmong Refugee. the UN still can't help this pples. the UN still helping the thai gov. I'm one of the pples that thai pples torturing. Just last weeked thai navy kill more than 100pples from Burma. dump the body to the ocean.u were right Vuthapich.

[rockmanVS32]

นะสิ มาเกี่ยวไรกับไทยวะ

[unitedstateofamerful]

this karen knu chair man is assassinated by spdc which is states peace and development coulcil and democratic karen buddhist army which is dkba..

the guy who try to kill this karen leadership is already die too...he died in june 2009 after one year of assassinated karen leadership pa doh ma sha lah pah..

knu never give up until karen have their own country and peace...

karen is karen..karen is not burmese..karen and burmese are ooposite...

any questions???free answer

[MrTAiLue]

this video does not supported that thai government killed anyone, but karen army betray Karen leader by siding with Junta

[mupoe11]

1 dislike is killer leader he or her have no life

[sinra168]

@buaqua1 yes, fucking thai gov

[verry55]

Très sensible à la vie d'Aung San Sue Kyi, j'apprécie votre reportage... A bientot... See you next

[southsudanvoice]

free the karen people from South Sudan..

[flyguyinmotion]

@buaqua1 My god, why doesn't the world know of these things ? The Thai's have been extremely brutal to refugees for a very long time. I remember stories of Vietnamese boat people from the 1970's being murdered by the Thai military.