Ultimate characters Myanmar cease-fire with rebel Karen

PA - AN, Myanmar (AP) - Myanmar's Government signed a cease-fire Thursday with ethnic Karen rebel agreement in an important step to end one of the longest insurgencies in the world and meet an essential condition for the better with the West connects.

The talks between officials and Karen National Union heads of State and Government were part of the efforts of new nominally international legitimacy of Myanmar through democratic reforms after years of military repression to seek civil government .

The Karen group to fight for greater autonomy for more than 60 years in a campaign of guerrilla warfare in the Eastern jungle, which is preceded by the independence of Myanmar from Britain. It was the only ethnic groups of Myanmar never to have reached a peace agreement with the Government.

Ethnic conflict in the country long halt was bring a crucial application for Western Governments such as Myanmar pro-democracy icon and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Aung min, head of the Committee, announced the cease-fire of the Government peace journalists following discussions in the capital of Karen, PA - an, but it was immediately more information type.

"Has signed a ceasefire agreement," said Aung min.

Myanmar has been in disagreement with ethnic, seek, but a military junta that took power in 1988 has signed agreements of ceasefire with good number of them greater autonomy for decades. Some of these Covenants were tense combat energy still to join the Central Government.

But the sanctions of the new Government, which has the November 2010 elections to try to end the international isolation to reforms to lift his Office took the political and economic in the West because of the repression under the junta.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said during his last visit to Myanmar ethnic struggle of the country was a key to the improvement of relations with the West.

In Washington, State Department hosted the truce as a "good step." spokesman Victoria Nuland Thursday she reiterates the need for the Government to hold an inclusive dialogue with ethnic minorities in the direction of national reconciliation.

Suu Kyi insisted on the request in an interview with the associated press last week.

"Unless there is an ethnic harmony he very difficult will be accumulation for us, a strong democracy," said Suu Kyi.

In recent months, the Government has talks with rebel groups, new peace fight offers or rebuilt the shattered cease-fire held. Others have been involved are Shan, Karenni, Chin and Kachin in talks.

The most consistent opponents were Karen. Guerrillas could move close to Karen, what was then the capital of Rangoon, in 1949. After the military entry in 1962 extended power struggle Karen and finally it controlled large tracts of territory on the border with the Thailand.

The Group has benefited from an unusual source of strength - many of their leaders were Christians and were in support of the donor countries to draw with United States.

After that the Government negotiate covenants of cease-fire with smaller minorities, it is his power to focus on the Karen in the 1990s. The rebel group joined the decline, accelerated by a split in the group as a Buddhist members of rank, defying the leadership, a prodigal group allied with the Government.