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    Tagged: ethnicity

    Culture Kachin Lead Story News

    Questioning this year’s Manau Festival

    The Kachin public opposed the plan as they felt it was inappropriate to dance the celebratory Manau in the midst of an ongoing war, while thousands of IDPs continue to languish in camps.

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    Law Lead Story News Religion

    Magwe monks march in support of race protection laws

    Buddhist nationalists in Magwe division have become the latest to march in support of the controversial Interfaith Marriage Law.

    Culture Kachin Lead Story News

    Burma’s pygmy people face extinction

    It has been reported that only five pure blooded Taron people are still alive – four siblings and one elderly person aged over 100 years. They are all between 1.2 and 1.37 metres tall.

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    2015 Elections Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Suu Kyi reiterates call for national reconciliation

    Addressing 260 representatives from across Karen State, Suu Kyi proclaimed that the NLD is an “all-ethnic party” and would compete as such in the next general election.

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    Speaker urges laws to protect Burma’s national race, religion

    Burma’s Parliament Speaker Shwe Mann urged relevant ministries to draft laws governing the protection of national race and religion during Thursday’s assembly. Four laws have been proposed to oversee religious conversion, marriage and population.

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    Ethnic groups resist census, object to question of ethnicity

    Many ethnic leaders are opposed to a list that only recognises 135 specified ethnic groups in Burma – a list that dates back to British colonial times. (PHOTO: Shan family/ public domain)

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    KNU urges all sub-groups to unite as Karen for census

    The Karen National Union has urged the various ethnic sub-groups within Karen state to register in next year’s nationwide census as “Karen” when identifying their ethnicity in the questionnaire.

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