Palaw
Town in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the plant known as "palaw", see Cyrtosperma merkusii.
Palaw (Burmese: ပုလောမြို့, Thai: ปะลอ) is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township.[1]
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Palaw Township
ပုလောမြို့ | |
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Coordinates: 12.9597°N 98.6545°E / 12.9597; 98.6545 | |
Country | Myanmar |
Region | Tanintharyi Region |
District | Myeik District |
Township | Palaw Township |
Seat | Palaw |
Area | |
• Total | 2.73 sq mi (7.1 km2) |
Population (2019)[1] | 22,267 |
Time zone | UTC+6.30 (MMT) |
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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.[2]