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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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