MYITKYINA, Myanmar: After a life turned upside down by conflict, Htan Wang craves peace and security in her Kachin homeland more than any democratic dividend promised by next month’s Myanmar election.

Kachin is one of several borderlands where armed ethnic groups have sporadically fought the central government for nearly 70 years, in the world’s longest running civil war.

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