Word: impish
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...Johnny Htoo. The boys are fundamentalist Christians who believe they are immunized against bullets and land mines by mystical powers and have built a mostly teenaged army of some 200 among a Burmese ethnic group, the Karen, which has long been in conflict with the Burmese government. The impish insurgents allegedly built their following by sneaking into a village controlled by the Burmese military and killing several soldiers. "There's nothing new about child warriors in Southeast Asia," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "A number of the region's insurgencies have been recruiting young boys for many years...