Human Rights Watch Urges Aid to Civilians in Myanmar's North

Myanmar's military should ensure humanitarian aid reaches all civilians who have been affected by clashes in the country's north between the army and an ethnic armed group, an international rights group urged Friday. Hostilities between Myanmar's military and guerrillas of the Kachin Independence Army escalated in mid-January to include three townships of Kachin state. The Kachin force is one of the most powerful ethnic militias and has skirmished with the military after a...

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