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, ...

Burmese air strikes left dozens injured as resistance forces clashed with the Myanmar junta near the Thai border. The Myanmar ...

Warplane wreckage found near Hpasawng town, where anti-regime forces had been attacking Infantry Battalions 134 and 135.

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 ...

An aerial attack killed five people on Tuesday afternoon in the Ta’ang army-controlled town of Kyaukme, northern Shan State ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

He said people from as far away as Washington, New York and California came to attend. He said there are about 10,000 Karenni living in the United States. “Most people don’t know that we exist ...

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 ...