SEA India Burma. BURMA DIGEST. Burma Counter Terrorism. Minority Rights Group International : Briefing papers : Minorities in Burma. 30 October 2007 By Chizom Ekeh and Martin Smith Who are Burma’s minorities?
Burma has over 100 ethnic groups, languages and dialects and is said to have the richest ethnic diversity in Asia. Such diversity is attributed to the country’s geographic location on a strategic crossroads, where historically it had acted as a buffer between the neighbouring powers of India, China and Thailand. Over 2,000 years of cross border migration and intermixing between cultures has led to the development of diverse ethnic settlements and communities residing both in mountainous frontier zones and lowland plains areas of the country.
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