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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Grant Peck

Ethnic group says Myanmar air attack kills 80 at celebration

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Myanmar’s military has defended air strikes it carried out on a concert organised by an ethnic minority that killed as many as 80 people, including singers and musicians.

The military claimed it was responding to the ambushes and attacks from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), a group engaged in a six-decade-long struggle demanding greater autonomy for the Kachin people.

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