FILE footage of Karen rebels and political leaders

(12 Jan 2012) SHOTLIST
FILE: Wah Ler Kee Camp - Karen State, Myanmar - 23 May 2002
1. Young Karen soldier with rifle
2. KNLA (Karen National Liberation Army) patrol resting on hilltop
3. Patrol moving through camp
4. Various of patrol walking in jungle
5. Commander checking captured rifle
6. Close-up of barrels of two other captured guns
7. Close-up of face of soldier watching
8. Commander firing rifle to check it is working
FILE: Thailand/Myanmar border - 11 January 2005
9. Seized weapons with rebels in background
10. Various of rebels with weapons
FILE: Thailand/Myanmar border - 11 January 2005
++NIGHT SHOTS++
11. Karen rebel (arm patch on camouflage jacket) standing over captured soldiers
12. Captured Myanmar soldiers sitting on ground in line
13. Close up of tied-up wrists of soldier
14. Myanmar soldiers sitting on ground
FILE: Mae Sot, Thailand - 8 November 2010
++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
15. Various of people walking towards river bank from Myanmar side
16. Refugee families running
17. Refugees crossing river
18. Wide of old man being helped to walk
FILE: Karen state, Myanmar - 12 August 2001 (exact location unknown)
19. Wide of Karen soldiers' camp, soldiers on parade in front of Karen National Liberation Army symbol on the ground, during Karen's Martyrs Day celebration
20. Mid of Karen soldiers
21. Karen soldier lowering his head to pay respects
22. Close of hands on rifle
23. Wide of soldiers standing at attention
FILE: Karen state, Myanmar - July 2001 (exact date and location unknown)
24. Wide of Karen soldier firing a machine-gun
25. Karen soldiers firing a machine-gun from behind
26. Zoom out of Karen soldiers firing RPG
FILE: Mae Sariang, Thailand - 1 July 2010
27. Various of Saw Tamla Baw, President of the Karen National Union, in bed
FILE: Yangon, Myanmar - 21 January 2004
28. Various of Karen leaders in cease-fire talks with Myanmar's military government officials
FILE: New Manerplaw, Myanmar - 31 Jan 2006
29. Local people watching a traditional performance
30. Mid of girl watching
31. Karen dancers performing
32. Close of drum
33. Karen people singing
STORYLINE
Myanmar's government signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday with ethnic Karen rebels in a major step towards ending one of the world's longest-running insurgencies and meeting a key condition for better ties with the West.
The talks between officials and Karen National Union leaders were part of efforts by Myanmar's new, nominally civilian government to seek international legitimacy through democratic reforms after years of military repression.
The Karen group has been fighting for greater autonomy for more than 60 years in a guerrilla campaign in eastern jungles that dates back to before Myanmar's independence from Britain.
It has been the only one of Myanmar's major ethnic groups never to have reached a peace agreement with the government.
Bringing a lasting halt to all of the country's long-running ethnic conflicts has been a crucial demand of Western governments as well as the Myanmar's pro-democracy icon and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Aung Min, head of the government's peace committee, announced the truce to reporters after talks in the Karen capital, Pa-an, but he did not immediately give any further details.
For decades, Myanmar has been at odds with the ethnic groups who seek greater autonomy, but a military junta that took power in 1988 signed cease-fire agreements with many of them.
Some of those pacts were strained as the central government sought to consolidate power, and combat resumed.
Suu Kyi has also underlined the demand.
Thailand.
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Who are these guys?

[@dehlay5376]

De Rossi KNU, one of the ethnic people that fighting against Burmese government

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@@dehlay5376
မင္းေမစပ္ပပ္ကိုဘဲေတာ္လွန္လို႔ရမယ္၊မင္းတို႔ေတာ္လွန္ေလ၊မင္းတို႔အမ်ိဳးေတြေခြေျပးဝက္ေျပးေျပးရေလဘဲ၊႐ွိတာကႏွစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔တစ္ပိုင္း၊
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so. nice to see

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ေပ်ာ္တုန္းဘဲေနာ္၊ေပ်ာ္ၾကေပ်ာ္ၾက။

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for k

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Love you all.

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AA က်႐ံႈးပါေစ

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They're just kids POW.

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this is another level of karen 😂🤣

[@besay2228]

Very sad people

[@sonofland8321]

Go karen go. God is with you. The duty of an army of a nation is very much different. You are fighting against a government paid terrorist group called Burmese Army.