Map showing mass forced relocation program against the Karen population by Burmese troops in Tenasserim division (KNU's Mergui-Tavoy District).
Map is focusing in the Karen inhabitants areas that effected by Burmese troops forced relocation program during and after 1997.
The townships boundaries based on KNU's administration. The SPDC's administration has different townships name and boundaries.
According to Committee for Internally Displaced Karen Peope's Mergui-Tavoy district, 122 Karen villages were destroyed, 86 were forcibly relocated while 31 villages remain unaffected by force relocation program or Burmese troop's offensive. After 1997, 74 percent of Karen populations are in forced relocation sites, 9 percent are hiding in the jungle as internally displaced people while 17 percent become refugees and as externally displaced people or illegal immigrants in Thai villages on the border.
| Different townships' name and boundaries between KNU and SPDC administration. | |
| KNU | SPDC |
| Lerdohsoe township | Yebyu + Longlone and + Tavoy township |
| Kaserdoh township | Theyetchaung township |
| Kawtaka township | Tavoy township |
| Lermulah township | Palaw + Easter Mergui township, + part of Western Mergui (Islands group) township and + Tenasserim township |
| Tenasserim township | Tenasserim township + Western Mergui (Islands group) township. |
| No.12 Battalion Zone. | Bokpyin township+ Kawthaw district. |
