The Kayah Democratic League was a political party in
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
.
History
Established as an ally of the
Stable AFPFL (the
Kayah National United League allied itself with the
Clean AFPFL), the party represented the
Kayah of
Karen
Karen may refer to:
* Karen (name), a given name and surname
* Karen (slang), a term and meme for a demanding woman displaying certain behaviors
People
* Karen people, an ethnic group in Myanmar and Thailand
** Karen languages or Karenic l ...
and
Shan states.
[Haruhiro Fukui (1985) ''Political parties of Asia and the Pacific'', Greenwood Press, p137] In the
1960 general elections it won a single seat.
References
{{Burmese political parties
Defunct political parties in Myanmar