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Mandalay, Apr 1 (EFE/EPA). Myanmar's military junta has declared a month-long unilateral ceasefire with ethnic armed groups as at least 20 soldiers were killed in a clash with the Kachin Independence Army and a UN envoy warned of the possibility of "civil war at an unprecedented scale." (Camera: STRINGER).SHOT LIST: PROTESTS IN MANDALAY, MYANMAR.

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