Myanmar
Since 2011 the region Kachin in northern Myanmar is in an ongoing conflict between liberation armies and the central government. After Burmese independence in 1948 many ethnic minorities have been campaigning for more self determination and independence, with little success. The military arm of the Kachin Independence Organization has been fighting government soldiers since 1961, with only one ceasefire being brokered between them from 1994 to 2011. Since the collapse of the ceasefire in 2011 more than 400 villages have been damaged or destroyed and 150,000 people displaced. The army is using extreme force against the liberation fighters and destroys whole villages. More than 100.000 people live as Internally displaced people in refugee camps
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