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Alex Preston in downtown Mandalay talks to Burmese who are smuggling the precious stone Jade; Jonah Kisher on one of the world's first hijackings by supporters of a Karen nation
The jade trade is a corner stone of the Mynamar economy. Alex Preston finds there is more to the sale of Burma's natural resources than meets the eye; There is a conflict that's been rumbling in Myanmar for sixty odd years. Some call the fighting between the Karen minority and the central government the world's longest running civil war. But these days it's more of a guerrilla insurgency, and some have high hopes that a lasting peace deal is not far off. The new government is after all, allowing some of the Karen rebel's stories to come out. Jonah Fisher is riveted:
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91热爆 World Service Online
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