Karen Women.

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KAREN WOMEN FORCED TO LEAVE HOMELAND.

BANGKOK: Burmese authorities are moving "long-necked" minority women from 
their homes in eastern Burma to Rangoon to live in a tourist village, a 
Burmese opposition group reported yesterday. Ethnic minority people from 
the hills of north Karen had been ordered to leave their homes by 
November 10, the dissident All Burma Students' Democratic Front said. 
Those ordered to move are members of the Padaung ethnic group, whose 
women wear metal rings to lengthen their necks. - Reuter.

(The Sydney Morning Herald, September 6, 1995, page 12.)

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