This handout from the Karen Information Center taken and released to AFP on March 31, 2021 shows ethnic Karen people taking part in an anti-military coup demonstration in Hlaingbwe township, in eastern Myanmar's Karen state. - AFP
YANGON (Reuters): One of Myanmar's oldest ethnic minority rebel groups has warned major conflict with the military could soon erupt and has called for international intervention and protection of its people forced to flee fighting.
The Karen National Union (KNU) which until 2012 fought one of the world's longest-running insurgencies, is preparing its fighters for attacks on several fronts, as hostilities with the military reignite following a Feb 1 coup.
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