Ethnic Group in Myanmar Gears Up for War, Peace -- New York Times/AP
LAIZA, Myanmar (AP) -- Crawling on their bellies, the recruits inch through a field, dragging wooden rifles. A whistle blows, and they scramble to their knees, pulling the pins from imaginary grenades before lobbing them. Dropping flat, they yell ''Boom!''
At a camp alongside a river, the next generation of soldiers in the Kachin Independence Army, one of Myanmar's largest armed ethnic groups, is training with a new urgency. A cease-fire is in peril, and the Kachin do not want to patrol the border for the ruling junta.
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My Comment: Myanmar (Burma) has a long history of civil war and ethnic cleansing. I did a post on this conflict last year, and it is sad to see the same bitterness, animosities, and lack of trust coming to the forefront.
My prediction .... and it is not a tough one .... unless the central government is dissuaded from the course that it is now following, civil war and conflict is probably going to be the end result.
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