BANGKOK (AlertNet) – The EU's aid chief said she was "encouraged" by Myanmar's willingness to allow aid groups access to more areas of the country and that she considered access to communities uprooted by fighting between troops and northern rebels a priority.
More than 20,000 people fled fighting in Myanmar's northern Kachin state between the army and rebels in June. Tension has been rising in the troubled area bordering China since last year, largely because the Kachin have resisted government pressure to recruit their men into a state-run border security force.
