Thousand flee Myanmar to China as fighting escalates in Kachin: Activists

Heavy fighting in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and prevented a United Nations (UN) special envoy from visiting the embattled area near the Chinese border, activists say. According to the secretary of the Kachin Network Development Foundation, Dashi Naw Lawn, army warplanes carried out air raids […]

Heavy fighting in Myanmar’s northern state of Kachin has forced thousands of people to flee their homes and prevented a United Nations (UN) special envoy from visiting the embattled area near the Chinese border, activists say. According to the secretary of the Kachin Network Development Foundation, Dashi Naw Lawn, army warplanes carried out air raids […]

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