Word: toungoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article on the plight of Burma saddened me [Nov. 24], but your description of the Karen tribesmen as "warlike" is not accurate. My father, grandfather and great-grandfather spent their lives working with the Karen people in the Tharrawaddy and Toungoo hills, and I played with the Karen children and spoke their language during my childhood in Burma. We found the Karens cooperative, very eager to learn and loyal. Their desire to improve themselves and their successes aroused the jealousies of the Burmese who were content to live off the lush plains of the Irrawaddy River delta. EDWARD...