{{Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has offered to help negotiate an end to conflicts between the government and the country’s ethnic minority groups.}}<\/p>\n
Suu Kyi made the offer on Tuesday in a video address to members of her National League for Democracy party on Union Day, which marks when her late father signed a 1947 agreement with leaders of the country’s ethnic minorities to gain independence from Britain.<\/p>\n
The occasion is a reminder of an issue that has destabilised the country since even before it obtained independence in 1948 under the name of Burma.<\/p>\n
Rebellions by ethnic minorities striving for greater autonomy were hard for a democratic parliamentary system to deal with, which increased pressure for strong central authority and helped lead to an army takeover in 1962. Military rule persisted until 2011.<\/p>\n
The government of elected President Thein Sein has reached ceasefire agreements with most of the major ethnic groups, but still finds itself engaged in a bitter struggle with the Kachin in northern Myanmar.<\/p>\n
Thein Sein in his Union Day address stressed the importance of “political stability and the end of armed conflicts”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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