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Ethnolinguistic Groups of Burma/Myanmar Map of conflict zones in Myanmar. States and regions affected by fighting during and after 1995 are highlighted in yellow. Map of Myanmar and its divisions, including Shan State, Kachin State, Rakhine State and Karen State. Arakan. Ethnic group: Rakhine. Proposed state: Arakan State
The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said. The ...
The Office of Myanmar's State Counsellor also blamed ARSA for the killings of five Daingnets on 26 August [517] and seven Mro people on 31 August. [518] The mass-graves of 28 Hindus were found by Myanmar's security forces on 24 September 2017 near the village of Ye Baw Kya, [519] with 17 more bodies found on the next day. [520]
BGP5 – the letters stand for Border Guard Police – was the Myanmar military junta's last stand in northern Rakhine State, which lies along the border with Bangladesh.
The Karen conflict is an armed conflict in Kayin State, Myanmar (formerly known as Karen State, Burma). It is part of the wider internal conflict in Myanmar between the military government and various minority groups. Karen nationalists have been fighting for an independent state, known as Kawthoolei, since 1949. [11]
Myanmar’s military government faced a fresh challenge Monday when one of the armed ethnic groups in an alliance that recently gained strategic territory in the country's northeast launched ...
The proposed state would have encompassed the territories of Karen State and Karenni State (present-day Kayin State and Kayah State), in Lower Burma (Outer Myanmar). The KNU has since shifted their focus from full independence to regional autonomy , under a federal system with fair Karen representation in the government.
(Reuters) - Myanmar's junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has called on armed ethnic groups involved in an offensive against the country's ruling military to solve their problems "politically", state ...