Displaced students from Kaw Ka Rate unable to attend other schools

July 14, 2025

HURFOM: Since April, 2025, the military junta has been advancing a military operation and launching artillery and air assaults on Kyone Doe Town and nearby villages in Kaw Ka Rate Township, Karen State. Their actions are forcing more than 20,000 students from Hnaung Pa Dauk, Thar Ma Nya, Thar Yar Gone, Kaw Ka Thar, Ngar Tie, Lay Tie, Koe Tie, Yay Bu Gyi, Inn Gyi, Kaw Pha Lot, Kaw Ka Mar and Kyone Doe Chaung Pyar villages of Yoe Mahar and Kyar Kalay village tracks to flee their home.

The displaced students have taken shelter in Hpa-An, Karen State and Mawlamyine, Mon State; however, they are unable to join new schools as they did not get “leave letters” from their old schools nor “recommendation letters” from their village Administrators.

“Even headmistresses and teachers are running away. Schools are also closed. The situation in our village is bad so we’ve decided to move to the cities for our children’s education. But they can’t attend school here. The schools here won’t accept them because we have no recommendation letters and leave letters,” said one displaced woman.

The students remaining in the villages are attending schools operated by the education department of the Karen National Union.

“We’re able to help displaced students who are taking shelter in Hpa-An. But most displaced students in Mawlamyine have had to stop going to school,” said one social worker.

The military junta has limited movement alongside the Kaw Ka Rate – Kyone Doe – Mawlamyine Asia Highway Road creating shortages of commodities and medicine.

“We’ve moved to the city for our children’s education but they can’t attend school here. It isn’t certain that they will be able to join school in the next academic year either,” said one parent who fled to Mawlamyine.

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