Questão de Língua InglesaUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) 2015 - Tecnólogo Área Analista de Relações Internacionais

“Negotiations have stumbled over the fundamental question of whether Myanmar will remain a united and highly centralized country controlled by the Burman ethnic group, or whether power will be devolved to minority groups.”

“Photos of the rebels’ corpses were widely circulated on the Internet.”

“We are outraged,” said Mong Gwang, a captain with the Kachin Independence Army, which controls large swaths of territory along the border with China. “This means further conflict is coming.”

“Myanmar has been locked in an intermittent civil war from its earliest days of independence from Britain in 1948, and a cease-fire is considered a crucial part of President Thein Sein’s stated desire to deliver it from its abject poverty and dictatorial past.”

“The shelling on Wednesday, which struck an officers’ training facility near the Chinese border that is run by the rebel group, the Kachin Independence Army, was the most severe flare- up of violence since rebels and government troops battled around the rebel capital, Laiza, two years ago.”