However, if retail investors have an ample amount of money that they have not yet deployed (and according to mutual fund flow data, this may be the case), then it might be sufficient to sustain an uptrend for a significant amount of time.
There is no other place in the continent which combines that province's explosive ingredients: a population of at least 1.5m, which has been ruled without consent by what it regards as an alien and intolerably cruel authority plus an ample supply of cheap weaponry, in a region whose terrain and weak institutions make it almost impossible to police the flow of guns.