The People

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The Taunghsu so called by the Shan are well known all over Thailand and Cambodia, and as far as the Lower Mae Khong-about Kassac and the rapids of the thousand Islands. In the Shan Highland plateau, they are cultivators. When they travel abroad they are most commonly known as elephant and horse dealers.

The Living Earth

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Copy from a book of: PA-OH PEOPLE by Mika Rolly, press 1982. (Part 1 Chapter 1)

The evolution of life took place and as the last stage, mankind was created to live, toil and consume the resources of the Mother Earth. From savagehood, man learned to make use of his environment, to develop it for his own well being. Thus the first civilization took root on the fertile river basins. There were three known civilizations in Asia which appeared at approximately the same time; those of the Nile, the Euphrates and the Indus river basins.

The Year of Subjugation

Thursday, 11 February 2010 paohpeople

As a member of the Karen tribes, the Pa-oh suffered less discrimination from the Burmans than did the others in lower Burma. However, in the Shan Highland Plateau, they were faced with another political repression under the feudal system.

In lower Burma after the collapse of the Pa-oh kingdom, the Pa-oh were a suppressed people, hunted down by the Burmese bands of dacoits organized by the governor left behind by Anawrahtah in “Tsai Htomg”. When their villages were destroyed, the Pa-oh clans, about a hundred families under Htun Chi, as recorded, moved north and built new settlement, taking earth and stones from their former towns as a symbol for their new settlements, named “Tsai Htomg Pey”, later it was to become “Thaton Gale”. Today it is known as Hsi Saing, situated 20 miles north of the Karenni border.