YANGON - Two civilians were killed on Sunday when fighting broke out in a northern Myanmar town on the border with China, a region long plagued by ethnic rebel insurgencies. Locals in the town of Muse, a hotbed of smuggling, reported that fighting began in the early morning. "People from (the) border checkpoint are now fleeing to Muse because of heavy fighting," Aye Aye, a resident of the town, told AFP. "We are fighting together with our alliance of ethnic armed groups," Khine Thu Kha, from the Arakan Army, told AFP. One of Suu Kyi's priorities is a peace deal with the patchwork of armed minorities fighting the state.

Source: Bangkok Post November 20, 2016 12:36 UTC