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Lack of self-determination rights led to blocking the progress in Kachin State and the call for reform went out. Brang Seng was one of the leaders of such reform. When the army of the Union of Burma, the Union's presumed protector, turned instead into usurper of citizen's freedom and rights, military
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Maran Brang Seng, the leader among the Kachin people for most of the last thirty years when he died on 8 August 1994 was
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Freedom Moment. He was one of the champions of civil liberties and democratic rights. After all he led his people during turbulence and tragedy in a period that was
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