At the time, Karen, Kachin and Chin battalions were fighting Burmese communist and PVO militias up and down the Irrawaddy valley. It was also a time (the only time) when the government of Burma was genuinely multi-ethnic, with a Shan president, a Burman Prime Minister (U Nu), and a Karen Army Chief of Staff, the Sandhurst-educated General Smith Dun, who would soon be replaced by his deputy, Major-General Ne Win.(By- Thant Myint-U)
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