Palaw (, ) is a town in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar. It is the administrative seat of Palaw Township.
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.
External links Satellite map of Palaw and environs from Google Maps
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