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Palaw Township ပုလောမြို့
Township
Palaw TownshipLocation in Myanmar
Coordinates: 12°57′35″N 98°39′16″E / 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 km)
Population	22,267
Time zone	UTC+6.30 (MMT)

Palaw (Burmese: ပုလောမြို့, Thai: ปะลอ) is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township.

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.

External links

• Satellite map of Palaw and environs from Google Maps

References

1. ^ Myanmar Information Management Unit (September 2019). Palaw Myone Daethasaingyarachatlatmya ပုလောမြို့နယ် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအချက်လက်များ [Palaw Township Regional Information] (PDF) (Report). MIMU. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
2. Smith, Martin (1999-06-01). Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-85649-660-5.

v t e Tanintharyi Region
Capital: Dawei
Dawei District	Dawei Township Myitta Subtownship Launglon Township Thayetchaung Township Yebyu Township Kaleinaung Subtownship
Myeik District	Kyunsu Township Myeik Township Palaw Township Palauk Subtownship Tanintharyi Township
Bokepyin District	Bokepyin Township Karathuri Subtownship Pyigyimandaing Subtownship
Kawthaung District	Kawthaung Township Khamaukgyi Subtownship
Main cities and towns	Bokepyin Dawei Kawthaung Kyunsu Launglon Myeik Palaw Tanintharyi Thayetchaung Yebyu

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