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China Faces Pressure to Admit Refugees From Burmese Fighting

Posted June 16th, 2011 at 12:40 am (UTC-5)
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A human rights group wants governments to press China to open its border to hundreds of refugees who are fleeing a Burmese government assault on ethnic rebels in northern Burma. More than 1,000 Kachin villagers have massed near the Chinese border seeking to escape from the fighting, which began late last week. A witness tells […]

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