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The internal conflict in Burma is a term that is employed to refer to the current violence in Burma that has existed since approximately April 1948 between the Burmese government and the various ethnic groups in the country. More recently, the conflict has been against the military regime that has ruled the country from 1962 to 2011. The conflict is the oldest ongoing war in the world, and has received international attention as a result of the 8888 Uprising in 1988, the work of activist Aung San Suu Kyi, the anti-government protests in late 2007, and the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Nargis, which left over 80,000 dead and 50,000 missing in mid-2008.
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