BANGKOK, Thailand — Clashes between an ethnic rebel group in Myanmar and government soldiers have pushed a flood of at least 10,000 refugees across a river into Thailand, one day after Myanmar held its first election in 20 years.
In the attack, ethnic Karen rebels seized a police station and post office Sunday in the border town of Myawaddy, wounding at least 10 people on both sides of the river, according to reports from the border.
The fighting continued Monday, a reminder of a long-running civil war with a number of ethnic groups that has raged for decades in remote mountains and jungles in the former Burma, far from the politics that consume the cities. .....
for more infomation : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/world/asia/09myanmar.html
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