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The ethnic groups are not seeking independence, they want the autonomy promisised them in the Panglong Agreement which the Union was founded. They want similar rights as a US state.
Nov 15, 2011 08:37 AM
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If the upland minority ethnicities such as the Kachins were granted a certain level of autonomy and no longer harassed by the Burmese military under the control of the authoritarian generals, both peace and the unity of Burma as a federation of states could be preserved.
Nov 16, 2011 12:00 PM
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