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Friday, December 19, 2008

Understanding the Kachin conflict -- from Pulitzer International Center for Crisis Reporting --

http://pulitzercenter.typepad.com/untold_stories/2008/12/myanmar-11-key-points-for-understanding-the-kachin-conflict.html#more

Renewed conflict is expected after Burmese military junta's 2010 "election."

Authors write that 1994 ceasefire achieved nothing.

Kyi May Kaung