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Article: In Short
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- August 31, 2009
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30,000 Burma refugees flee into China
BEIJING - Fighting has eased along China's southern frontier
after days of clashes between Burmese troops and ethnic rebels sent
up to 30,000 refugees streaming across the border into China,
putting pressure on Sino-Burmese relations, writes Clifford Coonan.
The majority of rebels, many of them from the ethnic Han Chinese
Kokang minority, surrendered their arms to Chinese authorities upon
entering the country. They were fighting government troops sent to
the remote province to consolidate control over the several armed
ethnic groups along Burma's borders ahead of next year's national
elections, ...
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