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Burmese military camp attacked by Karen fighters
Separatist ethnic Karen fighters are reported to have launched one of their biggest attacks on the Burmese Army since the mid-1990s.
Thai military sources say about 30 people were killed in the attack on a large military camp near the Thai border.
A Karen villager who fled over the border into Thailand says the dead included four civilians living in the camp. .
The raid was carried out by about 100 fighters from the Karen National Union.
The K-N-U is one of several ethnic armies fighting for independence from Burma's military government.
24/03/2002 00:01:41 | ABC Radio Australia News
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