Battle of Kawmoora

Battle of Kawmoora
Part of the Karen conflict
Date ({{{year}}}-{{{month}}}-{{{day}}}) ({{{year}}}-{{{month}}}-{{{day}}})20 May 1989 – 21 February 1995
(5 years, 9 months and 1 day)
Location
Kawmoora, Kayin State, Myanmar
Result SLORC / DKBA victory
Belligerents
 Karen National Union
Commanders and leaders
  • Chief of No. (4) Bureau of Special Operations: Lieutenant General Maung Hla [1]
 Officer Commanding of No. (7) Brigade: Brigadier Taw Hla [2]
Units involved

 Tatmadaw

Karen National Liberation Army

  • No. (7) Brigade
Strength
10,000 soldiers
100 artillery		 1,000 soldiers
Casualties and losses

400 – 600 killed during 1994/1995 offensives

2,000 killed in total [3]

The Battle of Kawmoora (ကော်မူးရာတိုက်ပွဲ), also known as the Battle of Wan Kha Thit (ဝမ်ခသစ်တိုက်ပွဲ),[4] was a protracted battle between the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Armed Forces) and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). Before 1994, the Tatmadaw was unable to capture the KNLA stronghold of Kawmoora due to the stronghold's robust fortifications and narrow access from Tatmadaw-held territory. The Tatmadaw instead fired artillery at enemy positions from Thai territory, with the permission of the Thai government.[5] However, the Fall of Manerplaw on 27 January 1995 allowed the Tatmadaw to advance southward and capture Kawmoora on 21 February.[6][7]

  1. ^ အမှတ်တရတိုက်ပွဲများ အမှတ် (၁၇) ဝမ်ခသစ်ခေါ် ကော်မူးရာ စခန်းသိမ်းတိုက်ပွဲကြီး
  2. ^ အမှတ်တရတိုက်ပွဲများ အမှတ် (၁၇) ဝမ်ခသစ်ခေါ် ကော်မူးရာ စခန်းသိမ်းတိုက်ပွဲကြီး
  3. ^ https://www.geocities.ws/kurthanson2002/Kowmoora.htm [bare URL]
  4. ^ "Rumble in the Jungle: The Battle of Kawmoora". www.geocities.ws. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Htun Aung Gyaw, Kawmoora Offensive". www.hartford-hwp.com. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Karen stronghold falls to the Burmese junta". Reuters. 21 February 1995.
  7. ^ Thaung Wai Oo (2014). အမှတ်တရတိုက်ပွဲများ အမှတ် (၁၇) ဝမ်ခသစ်ခေါ် ကော်မူးရာ စခန်းသိမ်းတိုက်ပွဲကြီး.