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Tag: Ethnic Divisions

Posted inMyanmar

Suu Kyi stirs ethnic pot ahead of Myanmar elections

by David Scott Mathieson February 12, 2020February 18, 2020

In Taunggyi, the capital of Myanmar’s ethnically diverse Shan State, students, nurses and marching bands lined the streets to welcome State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on her way to to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of Union Day on February 12. This was the day, in 1947, that Suu Kyi’s father General Aung San signed […]

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