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Yugoslavia on the Irrawaddy? Not yet, but don’t rule out a Myanmar break-up
Rising rebel pressure could end up fragmenting the country.
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A Karen National Liberation Army soldier raising the Karen flag after burning Myanmar's national flag at a Myanmar military base on the outskirts of Myawaddy, on April 15.
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Throughout Myanmar’s 76 years as an independent nation, the military, which has ruled for much of that period, has seen battlefield ups and downs with ethnic armed organisations as the notoriously fractious nation heaved – and somehow held together.
Never though have the men in uniform lost an entire military command.
