Kachin Independence Organization

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Can China Mediate The Kachin Conflict?

08/05/2018 by Andrew KORYBKO

The Kachin rebels are concentrated mostly near the Chinese border, where some refugees have previously fled, and this brings about the possibility that the People’s Republic might be adversely affected if the situation doesn’t soon stabilize.

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Myanmar: Drawn-Out Peace Or Battle Lines Drawn? (I)

23/10/2015 by Andrew KORYBKO / 9 comments

Myanmar passed an historic milestone on 15 October, signing into effect what its government terms to be a “Nationwide Ceasefire Accord” (NCA) between itself and eight ethnically centered rebel organizations. As positive of a step as this may notionally be towards resolving the world’s longest-running civil war, it’s substantially without […]

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