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"The root cause of political crisis in Burma is not only ideological confrontation between
democracy and a military dictatorship, but ethnic problems rooted in the failure to implement
the Panglong Agreement in 1947. Since independence, however, ethnic problems, including
over sixty years of armed conflict and civil war, have long been neglected and ignored by
successive governments of the Union of Burma. Only recently, the Burman/Myanmar
politicians from three different camps: the President, the ousted former military regime Prime
Minister General Khin Nyunt, and democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi have expressed in
unison that ethnic conflict is the major issue that today?s Burma faces..."
Source/publisher:
Burma Centre for Ethnic Studies (Analysis Paper No. 2)
Date of Publication:
2012-02-00
Date of entry:
2012-02-21
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English (Burmese, Alternate URL)
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