Local Karenni officials—the Karenni people are the main population group in this area—tell Mother Jones that some of the massacre victims had been tied up before being shot and burned.

The Karenni people have been facing violence and displacement, too — since 1947. "It's easy to ignore an issue that you don't know about," said Ansley Sawyer, 26, ...

Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) deputy commander-in-chief Maui warned business owners against price gouging, ...

While there is some cultural crossover with the Karen people — who hail from a neighboring state in Myanmar and provide a prominent voice in Omaha’s refugee community — the Karenni have been ...

Myanmar’s regime has recaptured the key town of Mobye in Pekon Township, southern Shan State, after a major offensive. The town on the main highway to Karenni (Kayah) State was seized by the Karenni ...

At least 30 people, including women and children, were killed in the eastern Myanmar state of Kayah on Friday, according to the Karenni Human Rights Group, with two members of international ...

Thandar Soe, 11, from Kayah state in southeast Myanmar, shown in October at a camp in northwest Thailand where she, her family and other Karenni people took refuge after repeatedly relocating in ...

As a result, over 180,000 Karenni people have become internally displaced. They are forced to flee to monasteries, churches, and school compounds.

Saw Naing Lin poses for a portrait in front of his paintings at CSPS in southeast Cedar Rapids on Sunday, May 25, 2025. The paintings in the exhibit depicts what life in Karenni State, an ethnic ...

Interviewed in Arkansas, Bishop Stephen Tjphe talks about Karenni Catholics, the church's position on the persecuted Rohingya people, and Pope Francis' upcoming visit to Myanmar.

Young Karenni Catholics from Phoenix attend the fourth annual retreat organized by the Karenni-American Catholic Association in in Rogers, Arkansas, Sept. 2-3. (Peter Tran) by Peter Tran ...