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Despite progress elsewhere, the Kachin ethnic minority still wages war with the government.
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LAIZA — There’s little sign of a democratic awakening in Laja Yang. Despite vaunted reforms elsewhere in Myanmar, this dusty village remains a ghost town, abandoned last year after clashes between Myanmar's military and Kachin rebels, who began their fight for independence in the 1960s. The village lies along a bloody ethnic fault-line in the north, a fortified encampment threaded with foxholes and trenches.
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