YANGON: Myanmar?s military has used heavy weapons to overrun remote
rebel camps in northern Kachin state, the
army said Friday, as a seasonal offensive ramps up the long-running conflict.A separate military campaign in Rakhine state, which has forced 655,000 Rohingya Muslims over the border into Bangladesh, has dominated global attention.But the conflict in Kachin, a mainly Christian state in the Buddhist-majority country, has rumbled on away from international headlines and
fighting is again intensifying now that monsoon rains have ended.
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