Who lives in Burma

There are 67 different ethnic groups living in Burma. It's impossible to get an accurate count of their populations since most of them are hill tribes living in the jungles and mountains. Some of the larger minorities have assembled to fight against the military for independence. Some of them are the Shan, the Karen, the Kachin, the Mon, the Akha, the Pulau, the Arakan, the Rohingya. And, you know those women with the long stretched necks with rings around them? Them too. Each has their own language, clothing, culture, food, etc. They have formed liberation fronts and an exile government with one common objective: oust SLORC. By the junta's own count they are currently fighting a dozen separate revolutions. That's nothing a respectable government should brag about.

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