This news story from 2006 alerted me to a war I didn’t know anybody was fighting: the liberation of Karen State from Myanmar. The KNLA (Karen National Liberation Army) and KNU (Karen National Union) have been fighting for independence since the British left Burma (Myanmar) in 1948. What do you get a 51-year old rebel [...]
Posted January 4, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: Burma, independence, Karen National Liberation Army, Karen National Union, KNL, KNLA, liberation, movement, Myanmar, revolution. Be the first one.
Principality of Sealand is a WWII-era gunnery platform — called Roughs Tower — in the North Sea, outside Britain’s pre-1968 three nautical mile claim of sovereign waters. Founded by Roy and Joan Bates in 1967, over time, Roy wrote a constitution and named himself and Joan as prince and princess.
The Wikipedia article on Sealand tells [...]
Posted July 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: data haven, datahaven, diplomacy, gunnery platform, havenco, independence, international relations, micronation, north sea, politics, prince roy, principality of sealand, prisoners of war, roy bates, roy of sealand, sealand, sean hastings, sovereignty. 9 Comments.
