Myanmar and 8 Ethnic Groups Sign Cease-Fire, but Doubts Remain

Myanmar

16 October 2015

New York Times - Myanmar’s government signed a cease-fire agreement with eight armed ethnic groups on Thursday, in what the country’s leaders described as a major step toward peace in the vast borderland regions that have been restive since the earliest days of the country’s independence.

“If there are large areas of the country that are not included, it’s not really a nationwide cease-fire,” said Tom Kramer, a researcher at the Transnational Institute, an organization based in the Netherlands that examines ethnic issues in Myanmar. “The words about a nationwide cease-fire and talk of peace ring very hollow in some of these areas.”

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Ethnic Conflict in Myanmar