Myanmar rebel chief dies
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A veteran leader of the Karen rebel movement in Myanmar, fighting one of the world’s longest-running insurgencies, has died aged 79, a rebel official said yesterday.General Bo Mya, whose Karen National Union (KNU) has waged guerrilla war against the central government since 1949, died late on Saturday in a Thai hospital near the border of eastern Myanmar, a senior KNU official told Reuters.
“He passed away after suffering from several diseases so severe that he could not walk for three years,” said the official, who declined to be named.
Bo Mya suffered from diabetes and heart disease.
The KNU official said the leader’s death would have no impact on its fight for autonomy for the Karen people in eastern Myanmar, the official said. “KNU objectives are the same. Nothing changes,” he said.–Reuters
