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                  Burma Resumes Peace Talks with Kachin Rebels

   Burma`s government has started a new round of talks with ethnic Kachin
   rebels who are fighting for greater autonomy and political rights in
   their resource-rich northern region bordering China.
   The top government negotiator said Tuesday that the talks, if
   successful, could lead to a comprehensive cease-fire agreement with all
   ethnic rebel groups in a month or two.
   The talks with the Kachin Independence Organization are expected to
   last three days. They will take place for the first time in the Kachin
   state capital of Myitkyina. Previous rounds of negotiations had been
   held across the border in China.
   Fighting erupted in Kachin in June 2011, ending a cease-fire that had
   been in place since 1994 and displacing more than 100,000 people.
   Since independence in 1948, Burma, also known as Myanmar, has faced
   rebellions from a number of minority groups seeking autonomy.
   While sporadic fighting continues with several, the Kachin are the only
   major group that has not reached a cease-fire agreement with the
   elected government of President Thein Sein, who came to power in 2011
   after almost five decades of military rule.
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