A depleted junta flotilla carrying reinforcements from Mandalay has docked in the strategic town of Bhamo amid ongoing clashes with the Kachin resistance.
Historian Sam Dalrymple traces the five partitions of Britain's Indian Empire, from Burma to the Arabian Peninsula, and the legacies of conflict they left behind.
The umbrella group Kachin Political Interim Coordination Team says it remains committed to overthrowing the junta despite Chinese pressure to lay down arms.
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