July 29, 2011 10:54 AM

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Suu Kyi calls on army and ethnic insurgents to end civil conflict

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called on the army and ethnic insurgents to end a decades-long civil conflict in her first direct letter to the country's new President. Ms. Suu Kyi, who held her first talks with a Minister in the new government on Monday, said reconciliation between state forces and armed ethnic minority rebel groups could not be achieved by military means.Myanmar, where power was handed to a nominally civilian government in March after almost 50 years of military rule, has been plagued by decades of civil war. Fighting has intensified in the north and east of the country in recent months. Suu Kyi in her letter said, she was willing to get involved in halting the unrest.

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