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2012-10-29 Southeast Asia

Myanmar lowers ethnic strife death toll to 64

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Posted by Fred 2012-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Brought some of them back to life, did they?

Posted by Glenmore 2012-10-29 08:38|| 2012-10-29 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 BTW, as a side note, typing " Shan " into the search bar here is probably one of the better ways of looking up previous 'burg entries on the conflict there. You need the spaces around it because it gets used in place names in Pakistan.

To make a long story short: the government in Burma/Myanmar is at least pretending to want to reform and have democratic elections and all that jazz, along with a willingness to have the conflicts in the eastern part of the country die down. This comes simultaneous to an apparent desire to move away from a state of vassalage to China, which most Burmese/Myanmarese/etc thought liked the state only for its strategic position and its natural resources.

So there's this rumor (who knows how credible) that peace is going to break out and the country's gonna stop being yet another vassal state to the Han, and suddenly there's all this conflict going on in Rankine state.

Oh, and suddenly the Arab World cares about ethnic conflicts in Burma. (Facepalm).

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-10-29 11:43|| 2012-10-29 11:43|| Front Page Top

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