Kachin in a sentence

Dr. Hkalam Samson is also President of the Kachin National Consultative Assembly, a group of Kachin State religious and political leaders who help foster communication between the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) and the local community.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and resistance allies attacked four junta outposts on Wednesday and Thursday in the jade-mining hub of Hpakant in Kachin State.

Some major parties from Lower Myanmar started campaigning on Sept. 8 in Kachin State but ethnically Kachin parties have been prevented from campaigning.

We also shared our experiences with the Kachin Education Department under the Kachin Independence Organization in Mai Ja Yang.

A commander from the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the KIO’s armed wing, said changes are made to the KIO’s central executive committee every four years and Gen N’Ban La was in poor health.

He is a relative by marriage of the junta-appointed Kachin State Chief Minister Khet Htein Nan.

In this case the Arakan Army had help from Kachin State tribal rebels and have become a problem on both sides of the Bangladesh border.

And most of these specimens will probably come from the in Kachin, Myanmar.

August-September: The Kachin rebels send their first delegation to China, led by Brang Seng.

But for the AA, any return to a “designated area” near the KIA “capital” of Laiza in Kachin state where the group was first based but distant from its current theater of operations in Rakhine is a self-evident non-starter.

In 2015, voting was also canceled in parts of the Bago Region, and Kachin, Karen, Mon, and Shan States.

The resolution expressed concern over the breaching of human rights by the Myanmar Army and other security agencies against Rohingya, Kachin and other ethnic minority communities.

The state is home to Shan, Bamar, Pa-O, Palaung, Lahu, Danu, Kokang, Akha, Wa, Kachin and other groups with ethnicity-based political parties.

After fleeing conflict in Kachin State and living in an IDP camp, 16-year-old Seng Moon was told of a job as a cook by her sister-in-law in China’s Yunnan province.

Given that, how does India view this Trilateral Highway as a way to boost tourism and trade between India’s northeastern region and Myanmar’s Kachin, Chin and Rakhine states?

How many of your aspirations for the Kachin people have been fulfilled by now?

In Waimaw, about 19 km from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, more than 4,000 local people plan to stage another major protest against the dam in the first week of April.

Local ethnic Kachin people will not be happy if the ruling National League for Democracy or the main opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party won elections due to the migrant vote, he said.

So when the Myanmar military abuses the Rohingya women we also show our solidarity, because we know that the Myanmar military has been abusing other ethnic women—Karen, Kachin, Shan, Ta’ang—and now they are abusing the Rohingya women.

The military accused three of the leaders — Zau Jat of the Kachin National Social Development Association, Htoi Gender and Development Foundation Director Nang Pu, and lawyer Lum Zawng — of using defamatory terms against the Tatmadaw during the protest.