Veg Palaw

Palaw is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township. In 1948, a Bamar militia group threw hand-grenades into a Christmas Eve service in Palaw and killed 80 ethnic Karen churchgoers. This incident and existing interracial tensions sparked a series of retaliatory incidents and massacres between Ba…
Palaw is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township. In 1948, a Bamar militia group threw hand-grenades into a Christmas Eve service in Palaw and killed 80 ethnic Karen churchgoers. This incident and existing interracial tensions sparked a series of retaliatory incidents and massacres between Bamar and Karen ethnic groups that culminated in the declaration of the Karen conflict war by the Karen National Union.
  • Country: Myanmar
  • Region: Tanintharyi Region
  • District: Myeik District
  • Township: Palaw Township
  • Seat: Palaw
  • Population (2019): 22,267
  • Time zone: UTC+6.30 (MMT)
Data from: en.wikipedia.org