Download or read book The Kachin Tribes of Burma written by William James Sherlock Carrapiett and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kachin Conflict written by Carine Jaquet and published by Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting in Kachin state flared back up just months after President Thien Sein came to power in March 2011. The new government almost immediately began negotiating a series of peace agreements with ethnic armed groups declaring that the signature of a nationwide ceasefire with all ethnic armed groups would be a priority for this first civilian administration. By convincing the majority of groups involved in armed struggle against the Tatmadaw to sign ceasefire agreements, the predominantly civilian government succeeded in winning some credibility, both nationally and internationally. At the same time, several old fault lines have re-emerged, among them the conflict in Kachin and Northern Shan States. The roots of the conflict in Kachin State between the KIO and government troops go back to grievances over control of the territory (and its lucrative natural resources) and the preservation of ethnic identity after the end of British colonial rule in 1948. The rekindling of this old conflict, after seventeen years of ceasefire, serves as a powerful reminder of the fragility of certain aspects of the transition process. The setback to conflict and blockage of peace process with the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and its Army (KIA) show that some structural political issues remain, such as the recognition of local power structures and decentralization. While much has been written in the media about the legal, economic, and political reforms in Myanmar; academic research about the Kachin Conflict, as well as firsthand information remains scarce. Analyzing the causes of the conflict and current impediments to peace in Kachin territories provides an illustration of the limits of the transition process. This research examines the personal experiences of a strong sample of influential Kachin people, shows the complexity of notions of war and peace in the collective Kachin memory, as well as the reinterpretation of these by local leadership for political ends.
Download or read book The Kachin written by Bertil Lintner and published by Art Media Resources. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable for their military prowess, their receptivity to Christianity, and their intricate all-embracing kinship network, the Kachins are a hardy mountain people living in the remote hills of northern Burma and on the peripheries of Indian and China. During the Second World War they strongly aided the Allies in defending Burma against the imperialist designs of the Japanese, earning themselves sorbriquets such as 'amiable assassins' and 'Ghurkas of Southeast Asia.' After Burma's independence in 1948, the Kachins were given their own state, but in the early 1960s they went to war again, this time fighting for autonomy for their homeland. For over thirty years, funded largely by the world-renowned jade mines they control, they maintained their armed insurgency, playing a key role in Burma's internecine struggles. In 1994 the Kachins signed a cease-fire agreement which they hope marks the start of an era of peace.
Download or read book The Kachins written by Ola Hanson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1913, this book details the work of a missionary who lived with the Kachin people of Burma for over twenty years.
Download or read book The Kachins written by Ola Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myanmar written by N Ganesan and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers issues of historical influence and political considerations that have shaped the dominant thinking within the state and the military. Examines the three major ethnic groups in the country - Karen, Kachin, and Shan. Deals with how the various ethnic groups are trying to cope with decades of conflict and reconstruct their communities.
Download or read book Political Systems of Highland Burma written by E. R. Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main body of the book is concerned with the theme that empirical political behaviour among the Kachin is a compromise response to the polarised political doctrines of gumsa and gumlao.. Nearly one-third of this book consists of Chapter V entitiled 'The Structural Categories of Kachin Gumsa Society'. It is concerned with the interpretation of a series of verbal concepts and their interconnections. This long chapter is placed between a relatively short account of a particular Kachin community directly observed (Chapter IV) and a series of chapters (VI, VII, VIII) containing secondhand ethnographic and historical evidence.
Download or read book Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma written by Mikael Gravers and published by Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the image of modern Myanmar/Burma tends to be couched in human rights terms - and especially of a heroic Aung San Suu Kyi opposing and oppressive military regime - in reality there are several conflicts with ethnic and religious dimensions, as well as political and ideological differences between the opposition and the ruling military regime. This is not surprising in a country where 30% of the population and much of the land area are non-Burman, and where contradictory tendencies towards regional separatism versus unitary rule have divided the people since before independence. In what is probably the most comprehensive study of Burma's ethnic minorities to date, this volume discusses the historical formation of ethnic identity and its complexities in relation to British colonial rule as well as the modern state, the present situation of military rule, and its policy of "myanmarification." Changes of identity in exile due to religious conversion are analyzed and discussed. Finally the book deals with relevant and recent anthropological and sociological theoretical discussions on the ethnic identity, boundaries, and space of all the main ethnic groups in Burma.
Download or read book Being and Becoming Kachin written by Mandy Sadan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burma written by Benedict Rogers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UPDATED For more than 50 years, Burma has been ruled by a succession of military regimes which rank among the most oppressive dictatorships in the world. Accused of crimes against humanity, they have brutally mistreated their people. Yet, in the last few years, the pace of change has been breathtaking. Much is now hoped for. However, Burma is one of the most ethnically diverse nations in Southeast Asia: there are roughly seven major ethnic groups living along its borders. They have a long history of conflict with the government and have been cruelly treated by the current regime. Their future affects the country as a whole, as Benedict Rogers explains. Drawing heavily on his many fact-finding visits both inside Burma and along its frontiers, he gives a unique appraisal of the current ethnic situation and its implications for the nation as a whole. Wide-ranging, expertly researched, and full of brand new accounts of the courage and determination of the Burmese people, Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads explains the country's conflicted history, as well as its contemporary struggle for justice. Burma stands poised for freedom, or for further repression. No one can be sure. This fascinating and accessible book describes what is really happening inside this beautiful, secretive, and potentially prosperous country.
Download or read book Social Dynamics in the Highlands of Southeast Asia written by François Robinne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on long term fieldwork and research in communities from Assam through to Laos, this book offers a unique level of reappraisal of the work of Edmund Leach and is a significant contribution to the development of a new regional anthropology of Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Being and Becoming Kachin written by Mandy Sadan and published by OUP/British Academy. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnic conflict has troubled the Kachin region of Burma since 1961. The area is of increasing contemporary interest because it borders India and China and it has the potential to affect Burma's reintegration into mainstream geopolitics. The book examines the conflict within a historical context of marginalisation in the region.
Download or read book Life Behind the Backdrop of Kachin State Myanmar written by Lisupha and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisupha, the author was born in 1961 amid political unrest during the beginning of a terrible recession in Burma. Shortly before he was born, all of the Westerners and the British were gone. The economic in the country was going back toward the era of Myanmar kingdoms! Kachins in northern Burma, along with many other minority peoples across the country started their revolution against the military regime of the ruling Myanmar.The Lisu tribe people, however, were totally different from those well educated and worldly experienced minority armed groups. They firmly believed that the Lord's second coming was imminent. They had no time to waste on economics and politics. What they longed for was the day that they would see their beloved evangelists in heaven with the Lord, Savior Christ Jesus.They never thought of joining any armed rebel groups to kill the government soldiers. They never dared enough to kill a fellow human created by God. This made the Kachin rebels mad at the Lisu Christians furiously. They took the Lisu people as cowards and easy going useless ones. The KIA, Kachin Independence Army decided to use atrocity means to force the Lisus to come and join with them. No matter how viciously they dealt with the Lisu people, the Lisus would not give up their faith. They didn't want a Lisu country on this earth. Many Lisu people perished under the swords of the KIA and Myanmar soldiers. Some Lisu men were skinned alive. Some were beheaded. They came up with new but cruelest ideas about how to torture the Lisu men to death. The little boy Lisupha have been attempted to kill by some extremists in Asia during his childhood and youth-hood. There are still many untold stories about atrocity and crime against humanity committed by armed groups in Myanmar. Lisupha would like to tell the world community to know about his people's suffering. We need to protect our society, our Literature and our faith in the Lord. To protect our language and our literature means to protect our faith, our life. Thank you so much for helping and promoting our Lisu life in Myanmar, China, Thailand and India.
Download or read book Metamorphosis written by Renaud Egreteau and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a young population of more than 52 million, an ambitious roadmap for political reform, and on the cusp of rapid economic development, since 2010 the world’s attention has been drawn to Myanmar or Burma. But underlying recent political transitions are other wrenching social changes and shocks, a set of transformations less clearly mapped out. Relations between ethnic and religious groups, in the context of Burma’s political model of a state composed of ethnic groups, are a particularly important “unsolved equation”. The editors use the notion of metamorphosis to look at Myanmar today and tomorrow—a term that accommodates linear change, stubborn persistence and the possibility of dramatic transformation. Divided into four sections, on politics, identity and ethnic relations, social change in fields like education and medicine, and the evolutions of religious institutions, the volume takes a broad view, combining an anthropological approach with views from political scientists and historians. This volume is an essential guide to the political and social challenges ahead for Myanmar.
Download or read book A Century of Growth the Kachin Baptist Church of Burma written by Herman G. Tegenfeldt and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Gun was as Tall as Me written by Kevin Heppner and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2002 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life as a Soldier
Download or read book Until the World Shatters written by Daniel Combs and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first in-depth piece of reportage about the largest natural resource heist in Asia reveals Myanmar's world of secret-keepers and truth-tellers. In Myanmar, where civil war, repressive government, and the $40 billion a year jade industry have shaped life for decades, everyone is fighting for their own version of the truth. Until the World Shatters, takes us deep into a world in which journalists seek to overcome censorship and intimidation, ethnic minorities wage guerilla war against a government they claim refuses to grant basic human rights; devout Buddhists launch violent anti-Muslim campaigns; and artists try to build their own havens of free expression. In the bustling city of Yangon we meet Phoe Wa, a young photojournalist pursuing his dream at a time when the government is jailing reporters and nationalist voices are on the rise. In Myanmar's far north, we meet Bum Tsit who is caught between the insurgent army his family supports and the business and military leaders his career depends on. His attempt to get rich quickly leads him to Myanmar's biggest, worst kept secret: the connection between the jade industry and the longest running war in the world. Until the World Shatters weaves Phoe Wa and Bum Tsit's stories to reveal a larger portrait of Myanmar's history, politics, and people in a time and place where public trust has disappeared.
