Asia Sentinel, 17 Jun 2011Beijing’s hunt for resources may be spurring the current conflict in Kachin State
The current armed conflict in Burma's northern Kachin State has effectively ended nearly two decades of ceasefire between the country's second largest ethnic army, the Kachin Independence Army, and the newly sworn-in Naypyidaw government, bringing a strategic region near the Chinese border to the verge of a civil war. Full story
