Historic Chance for Myanmar Peace Probably Scuttled

The omens are far from rosy for a February meeting scheduled as a step forward in ending Myanmar's seven decades-long ethnic conflict.

The first meeting, held in September 2016, was named after the historic Panglong Conference in 1947 at Panglong in the Shan States between ethnic minority leaders and Aung San, the head of the interim Burmese government. …