Dear Friends, We, the Karen Community Association- UK (KCA-UK), would like to invite you all to join us for a global day of action on 9th March, 2010 regarding the new military offensive against Karen civilians by the Burmese Army in Karen State, eastern Burma. In the UK, there will be a demonstration in front of British Foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO), King Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH, on 9th March 2010 at 12:30 to 13:30. For decades the Karen people have been under attack by the ruling regime. In early February this year, the troops of the Burmese Army entered two Karen villages in Ler Doh (Kyaukkyi) Township, Kler Lwee Htoo District and burned them down. As a consequence, seventy-four houses were destroyed. People in eleven villages have been forced to flee for their lives. Around 2,500 people are now hiding in the jungle, in desperate need of aid. In the same month, the Burmese troops fired a mortar bomb into an area of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Mutraw (Papun...