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Kachin State Summary
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(2002 pop. 1.3 million). Located in northeastern Myanmar (Burma), Kachin State is a land of deep mountains, forests, and rivers, as well as several areas of broad plains. Comprising eighteen townships and 699 wards or village-tracts, it is...
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Kachin Summary
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"Kachin" is the collective name for a related family of highland peoples who live in northeastern Myanmar (Burma) as well as adjoining parts of China's Yunnan Province and northeast India. The Kachin language is classified as a...
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Kachin Independence Organization Summary
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Founded in February 1961, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) is the leading armed opposition force among the Kachin people in northeastern Myanmar (Burma). An earlier Kachin uprising led by Burmese army mutineer Naw Seng in 1949 failed to find...
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Kachin State Information
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Coordinates: 26°0′N, 97°30′E The Kachin people also known as the Jingpo or Jinghpaw people, are the major ethnic group living in Kachin state and also have a large population in Yunnan province of...


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Kachin rangers: Allied guerrillas in World War II Burma
12/01/2002: 4,193 words, approx. 14 pages
Early in 1942, the outlook for the Allies was grim in the China-Burma-India theater, or CBI. The Japanese navy had driven the British navy from the Java Sea, Singapore had fallen in February, and the Japanese were simultaneously attacking the Dutch East Indies (to...
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20,000 march in Myanmar against junta
9/23/2007: 734 words, approx. 2 pages
About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.At one point a small crowd of about 400 _ about half...
 


 

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