Aung San Suu Kyi is heading back out on the campaign trail this weekend, but this time the 70-year-old opposition leader is going a little farther than usual: Kachin State.
From October 2-6, she is planning on giving speeches in Myitkyina and other towns in Kachin, the country’s northernmost state on its border with China, the Voice Weekly reported.
Kachin has been the site of intermittent clashes between the government and Kachin rebel factions since 2011, but Win Htein, a central executive committee member of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, said the trip will not pose security problems.
Suu Kyi is making a public effort to secure support among Myanmar’s many ethnic groups, having traveled already to Shan and Kayah States.
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