Rebel, Rebel: Myanmar’s Simmering Insurgencies

(News article direct from the ECONOMIST MAGAZINE BLOG on 26 Apr 2014.)




Shan insurgents in North-Eastern Burma.

“DO YOU have rebels in your country?” It is the first question the weary tea
farmer fires at us. The people in his village, high in the hills in Shan state
in northern Myanmar, are from the Palaung ethnic minority.


They know all about rebels and quite a
bit about government