Pado Saw David Taw passed away @ 10:37 PM Myanmar Standard Time: Rest in peace !!

 Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) sends our deepest condolencences to the famlies of Pado Saw David Thaw and Karen brothers and sisters on the loss of our beloved Karen leader. May Pado Saw David Thaw be rest in peace.

Padoh David Taw, a Karen leader, died tonight at 10:30pm in Mingalardon military hospital in Rangoon. Padoh David Taw, aged 65, passed away after suffering from a long illness.

The Burma government tonight (Sunday) will fly by helicopter, Padoh David Taw’s body to Karen State.

On Monday morning, the Karen National Union will take Padoh David Taw’s body to their KNLA headquarter area in 7th Brigade in preparation for a funeral service.

Padoh David Taw was, until recently, the secretary of the Karen National Union’s ‘Peace-Committee and a leading member of the delegation that negotiated the recent historic ceasefire agreement signed by both the KNU and the Burma government on the 12nd January, 2012.

Padoh David Taw is head of the KNU justice department and he was born in March 10, 1948 in Insein, Rangoon and studied history at Rangoon University.

Padoh David Taw is survived by his wife, Naw Jin Jar and two of his three daughters and two sons.-karen news

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KNU ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ပဒိုေဒးဗစ္ေထာ ကြယ္လြန္။
ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၁၄ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၂ခုႏွစ္။ (ေကအိုင္စီ)ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအ႐ံုး(KNU)၏ ဗဟို တရားေရးတာ၀န္ခံ ပဒိုေစာေဒးဗစ္ေထာသည္ ယေန႔ည ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၀နာရီခြဲတြင္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၌ ကြယ္လြန္သြားၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။

အသက္ ၇၅ႏွစ္ရွိသည့္ ပဒိုေဒးဗစ္ေထာသည္ ၎တက္ေရာက္ကုသေနသည့္ မဂၤလာဒံု စစ္ေဆး႐ံု၌ပင္ ကြယ္လြန္သြားျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး
၎ကို ရန္ကုန္မွ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ျမ၀တီၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ သကၤန္းညီေနာင္ေက်းရြာအထိ ဟယ္လီေကာ္ပတာျဖင့္ ညတြင္းခ်င္း ျပန္လည္ပို႔ေဆာင္ ရန္ အစိုးရဘက္မွ စီစဥ္ထားသည္။ယင္းေနာက္ သကၤန္းညီေနာင္မွတဆင့္ ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္သို႔ ျပန္လည္သယ္ေဆာင္သြားရန္ ေကအဲန္ယူဘက္မွ စီစဥ္ထားသည္ဟု ေကအဲန္ယူအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္း၏ ေျပာဆိုမႈမ်ားအရ သိရသည္။ဇနီးေနာ္ဂ်င္းဂ်ာႏွင့္ သားႏွစ္ဦး သမီးသံုးဦးထြန္းကားသည့္ ပဒိုေစာေဒးဗစ္ေထာကို မိဘမ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ဦးေရႊေထာ၊ ေနာ္ေမဖိုးတို႔မွ
၁၉၄၈ခုႏွစ္၊ မတ္လ ၁၀ရက္တြင္ ေမြးဖြားခဲ့သည္။ သူသည္ ရန္ကုန္တကၠသိုလ္၌ သမုိင္းဘာသာရပ္ျဖင့္ ဘြဲ႕ရခဲ့သူျဖစ္သည္။၎၏ စ်ာပနကိစၥႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေနာက္ရက္မ်ားတြင္ ေကအိုင္စီမွ ဆက္လက္ ေရးသားတင္ျပသြားမည္ျဖစ္သည္။