Lay Kay Kaw Myothit (Burmese: လေးကေ့ကော်မြို့သစ်; lit.'Lay Kay Kaw New Town') is a town in Myawaddy Township, Kayin State in southeastern Myanmar. Nine miles in the south of Myawaddy, it is close to the border with Thailand.[1]
In recognition of the Burmese military's negotiations with Karen National Union,[2] the oldest ethnic armed organization in the country,[3] Lay Kay Kaw was built as a "town of peace"[4] in 2015.[5][6]
^"၄ရက်မြောက် အဖြစ် လေးကေ့ကော်မှာ စစ်ရေးတင်းမာနေ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved 20 December 2021.
^""စစ်မဲ့ဇုန်"လေးကေ့ကော်က တိုက်ပွဲနဲ့ နောက်ဆက်တွဲအလားအလာ". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved 20 December 2021.
^"Explainer: Karen rebels step up attacks as Myanmar army struggles to rule". Reuters. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
^"စစ်ကောင်စီဘက်က အင်အားသုံးတိုက်ခိုက်လာနိုင်တယ်လို့ KNDO ပြော". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved 20 December 2021.
^"Challenges Beset New Myanmar Village for Karen Refugees". Retrieved 20 December 2021.
^"Myanmar battlefield rises from the ashes". The Myanmar Times. 6 December 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
LayKayKaw Myothit (Burmese: လေးကေ့ကော်မြို့သစ်; lit. 'LayKayKaw New Town') is a town in Myawaddy Township, Kayin State in southeastern Myanmar. Nine...
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