FILE PHOTO: Lt. Gen. Yawd Serk, Chairman of the Restoration Council of Shan State gives a speech during a military parade celebrating the 69th Shan State National Day at Loi Tai Leng, the group's headquarters, on the Thai-Myanmar border February 7, 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar's fragile ceasefire with several armed ethnic insurgent movements is in danger of unraveling after a military coup this week, a senior representative of a coalition of rebel groups told Reuters on Wednesday.
More than two dozen ethnic armed groups are active in Myanmar's borderlands. Some have signed ceasefire agreements while others continue to wage conflicts that flare sporadically.
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