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...current military regime has done. Intense negotiations by the junta led to many ethnic insurgencies laying down their guns in the 1980s and '90s - and opened up a vast territory for resource exploitation. But as the inequities between the Burmese majority and the tribal groups - the Arakanese, the Shan, the Kachin, the Karen, the Mon, the Wa and the Chin, to name a few - yawns ever wider, the chance of renewed armed conflict grows stronger. "To the military, we [ethnic minorities] are like mosquitoes," says a young Arakanese Buddhist monk, who participated in the crushed antigovernment uprising of September...
...Staff writer Shan Wang can be reached at wang38@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Shan Wang can be reached at wang38@fas.harvard.edu...
From there, a swap unfolds like a standard real estate transaction. Both sides have to be approved for loans. On Dec. 30, the Petroccos sold their townhome to Shan for $197,000 and bought her house for $289,000. The Petroccos now pay $500 more than they used to each month on their mortgage. Shan pays $550 less a month and squirreled away the profit...
...Shan, the trade could not have come at a better time. Shortly after the closing, she was laid off from her job as a project manager at a large communications firm. "This was a lifesaver for me," she says of the swap. "Now that I have a layoff package and a smaller mortgage payment, it takes a lot of the pressure...