It is the biggest challenge yet for Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy Party since their landslide election victory last November. But the Union Peace Conference, commonly known as the 21st Century Panglong conference, faces a difficult journey. Ethnic fracture linesMyanmar, also known as Burma, is divided into eight main ethnicities and further split into 135 ethnic groups. A family rides a motorbike on Aug. 26 past a billboard for the Union Peace Conference in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. On Monday, the Myanmar Army was reported to have attacked one ethnic armed group, the Shan State Army.

Source: CBC News August 30, 2016 17:15 UTC