Palaw
Town in Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar
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Palaw (Burmese: ပုလောမြို့, Thai: ปะลอ) is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township.[1]
Palaw Township
ပုလောမြို့ | |
|---|---|
  Palaw Township Location in Myanmar | |
| Coordinates: 12.9597°N 98.6545°E | |
| Country |  Myanmar |
| Region | Tanintharyi Region |
| District | Myeik District |
| Township | Palaw Township |
| Seat | Palaw |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.73 sq mi (7.1 km2) |
| Population (2019)[1] | |
• Total | 22,267 |
| • Density | 8,160/sq mi (3,150/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC+6.30 (MMT) |
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.[2]
