Thousands of Burmese Refugees Flee Fighting in North

(29 August 09-RV) China has asked the ruling military regime Myanmar to resolve the conflict between the army and an ethnic Shan rebels in the North that has sent thousands of refugees across the Chinese border. Jeremy Woodrum, Director of the US campaign for Burma, says that as the generals seek to bring minorities under their control and they have already razed more villages than those destroyed in the Darfur conflict: