Peace in Myanmar a distant prospect eight years after ceasefire deal

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BANGKOK – Myanmar’s junta is preparing to commemorate the eighth anniversary of a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) with ethnic armed groups on Sunday, even as the nation reels from the shock of more than 29 civilians in the north being killed on Monday after an alleged bombing by the military. Such dissonance underscores the reality that genuine peace dialogue among the key armed groups in Myanmar remains a distant prospect. If anything, the locals are grappling with an increasingly fractured political landscape. With the military preoccupied with battling new resistance groups that have emerged in response to the February 2021...