Two armed ethnic groups signed a ceasefire in Myanmar on Tuesday February 12, in a move which the government hopes will revive a flagging peace process dogged by continuing fighting and widespread distrust of the army. The New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Lahu Democratic Union (LDU) inked the National Ceasefire Agreement in the capital Nay Pyi Taw, joining eight other militias who had signed before Aung San Suu Kyi took office. Myanmar’s crisis in Rakhine State has made the security forces and civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi face international condemnation over the recent plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority. But the crisis in Rakhine state is just one of some two dozen conflicts festering around the country’s borderlands, where ethnic rebels have for decades fought the state for more autonomy.