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The mining companies, who buy the rights to dig ou

The mining companies, who buy the rights to dig our jade from corrupt generals, do not follow international or even national standards for safety. Following the law is easily avoided by companies who can afford large bribes.
When the monsoon season comes, so do the landslides.

Company ni htu sha ngut ai hpang ga bai nkaput da ai majaw Lanam ta hta mrang grai htu na bum gyi ai re mat ai rai nga ai;

Photo by @sengdiawng

#jade #mining #kachin #hpakant #everydaykachin

The Mali power plant was designed and built by the

The Mali power plant was designed and built by the Kachin Independence Organization and has been providing power to north Burma long before the union government was able to successfully build and run a dam.

Understanding this dam and where energy comes from is vital to understanding the broken cease-fire in 2011. This area of Kachin actually does not need more power and this plant is not running near 100%, but the union government gave permission to China to build a mega hydropower dam in the heart of Kachinland and confluence of the Irrawaddy river to export the energy back to China.

It was this Chinese mega dam, Myitsone dam, which led to the resumption of war and 150,000 new displaced people in the last 9 years.

The union made two hydropower dams in Kachin but they both broke shortly after opening and killed people in the process.

Photo by Hkun Li @jocoseboy

#kachin #malihka #kachinindependenceorganization
#chinese #hydropower #dam #everydaykachin #everydayasia

A mass wedding of KIA soldiers, 36 couples 'tie th

A mass wedding of KIA soldiers, 36 couples 'tie the knot' all together. These front line soldiers get just a 20$ monthly stipend, making affording a wedding themselves very difficult. The KIO provides these mass wedding opportunities on a semi regular basis, for it's soliders and Kachin farmer also organize thier own mass weddings, with 2 -10 couples.

Photo by @yawng_htang

#masswedding #frontline #kachin #soliders #laiza #everydaykachin #everydayasia #everydayeverywhere

All Souls Day Photos Of The Day from Simsa Kasa a

All Souls Day
Photos Of The Day from Simsa Kasa a local news publication.

Si mat wa sai Hpunau ni hpe myit dum akyu hpyi ya ai poi n'htoi.

2 November 2020, Laiza.
Roman Catholic doctrine holds that the prayers of the faithful on earth will help cleanse these souls in order to fit them for the vision of God in heaven, and the day is dedicated to prayer and remembrance. Requiem masses are commonly held, and many people visit and sometimes decorate the graves of loved ones.

Photo by Sinwa Naw

#allsoulesday #romancatholic #kachin #everydaykachin #everydayasia

Displaced people from the civil war watch Aung La

Displaced people from the civil war watch Aung La N Sang, a famous Kachin light heavyweight champion in MMA fighting live from Singapore in N hkawng Pa IDP camp in the KIO adminstration area.

Photo by @yawng_htang

#aunglansang @onechampionship #kachin #refugees #uncivilwar #everydaykachin #mmafighter

Healing Through Nature; Karai Kasang hpan da ai n

Healing Through Nature;
Karai Kasang hpan da ai n dai dinghta mungkan gaw tsawm htap dik ai shingra ni hte hpring nga ai. Dai shingra a shingni hpe hkam sha chye ai gadai rai tim myit a simsa ai lam, myit pyaw ai lam, myit dik ai lam ni hpe mu nada lu, hkam sha lu na re.

Photo & caption by Ah Brang

Note : N Shan State is largely administered by the Kachin Independence Organization & dispite looking peaceful has seen the most heavy fighting in the last few years.

#kutkai #shanstate #peaceful #landscapephotography #kachin #everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar

All worship programs have stopped for over 6 month

All worship programs have stopped for over 6 months already after the COVID-19 pandemic which started relatively close to Kachinland and Laiza.

The Roman Catholic Chruch of Laiza

Photo & caption by Hkun Li @jocoseboy

#romancatholic #church #pandemic #closed #laiza #everydaykachin #everydayasia

Kachin - Tibet borderlands After Kachin joined th

Kachin - Tibet borderlands

After Kachin joined the union of Myanmar, the union government sold a large part of Kachin to China without permission from the Kachin State government.

This showed early on what kind of 'union' the Burmese government desired with the Kachin and other ethnic groups who signed the Panglong agreement.

Photo & Caption by Ryan Libre

#borderlands #himalaya #kachin #tibet #everydayasia #everydaymyanmar #everydaykachin

On the edge of the Laiza golf driving practice ran

On the edge of the Laiza golf driving practice range locals set up for an evening of songs & spirits.

golf is probably the 3nd most popular sport in independent Kachin, after football and cane ball.

Photo by Hkun Li @jocoseboy

#laiza #golf #drivingrange #monsoon #kachinstate #everydaykachin

Loong Hsu was shot and killed by Myanmar Army sold

Loong Hsu was shot and killed by Myanmar Army soldiers on June 29 after taking shelter in the village school as the Myanmar Army soldiers entered to their village. In the recent days there had been several clashes between government forces and Shan State Army- South. ( Photo & caption by @hkun_lat Hkun Lat for Frontier Myanmar)

Full story: https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/shan-farmers-killing-leaves-villagers-burning-with-anger/

#everydaykachin

It's my native land "conflict affected area" curre

It's my native land "conflict affected area" currently no one can live here.

Photo & caption by @yawng_htang

#kachinstate #civilwar #ferrel #cows #nomansland #everydaykachin #everydayrefugees

One Humanity, Many Faiths.
《世界宗教是一家》

#PEACE

Photo & caption by Lee Yong Chao @i_belee

#everydaykachin

Hka Hku Shagawng Bum Ga Shagawng mountains in the

Hka Hku Shagawng Bum Ga

Shagawng mountains in the Hka Hku region of Kachin.

Photo by Mung Awm Kumji via Kachin Photographers Group.
Imagine selected by @lahpaisinwarnaung

#kachin #hkahku #everydaykachin
#HkaHku_Mali_Hkrang_Walawng #everydaymyanmar

From the series 'Praying for Peace" an ongoing pr

From the series 'Praying for Peace" an ongoing project taken by a refugee from the war documenting the process of his old village being slowly swallowed up by the forest that used to surround it. Villagers have not lived there for the last 9 years.

Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang

#burned #village #kachin #refugees #prayingforpeace #everydaykachin #everydayasia

The once seemingly limitless forests of Kachin are

The once seemingly limitless forests of Kachin are one of the silent victims of the longest ongoing civil war in the world.

Photo & caption by @ryanlibre

#deforestation #civilwar #nomansland #kachin #kachinindependencearmy

Natural art Mali Hka ( Irrawaddy river ) Photo

Natural art

Mali Hka ( Irrawaddy river )

Photo & caption by @munzinghang

#irrawaddy #blue #sunset #malihka
#everydaykachin

IDPs Youths playing inside Pa Kahtawng camp which

IDPs Youths playing inside Pa Kahtawng camp which located near Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State, Myanmar-China border.

Photo & Caption by Maran Ring Nu Awng @ringnuawng

Curators note : Mai Ja Yang is the 2nd largest city in the KIO micro nation. Like the capital, Laiza, there are more refugees from the war camped around the city then there are residents in the cities themselves.

#refugees #kachin #maijayang #IDPs #everydaykachin #everydayrefugees

The Danai river near the Maji Bum village.The vill

The Danai river near the Maji Bum village.The villagers have to across the river for making agriculture.
There is no bridge to cross and so much more difficult for them while flooding ,in the monsoon season.
Some villagers have quite good boats but some have only bamboo rafts to across the Danai river.

Photo & caption by @brangdi_lamai
#danai #river #moonsoon #season #flooding #bamboo #raft #kachin #everydayasia
Jinghpaw original caption N dai sumla gaw Danai Hka hku maga de nga ai Maji Bum ngu ai mare makau hta lwi ai Danai hka kaw rai nga ai. Dai mare na ni gaw yi sun galaw sha lu na matu hka dai hpe lai di nna hka a awra hkran de galaw lu galaw sha ma ai. Mahkrai n nga ai majaw lanam ta hka grai kaba ai ten ni hta aloi hte hkawm sa na matu yak hkrak ai lam ni nga ma ai. N kau ni gaw hka li kaja lu ma ai zawn grau na yak ai ni gaw kawa hpe wawn shachyaw let jai lang ma ai.

Manmaw in southern Kachin on the Mali Hka ( Irrawa

Manmaw in southern Kachin on the Mali Hka ( Irrawaddy river )
In Kachin folklore, the Mali Hka is the older sister of the younger and more wild Nmai Hka, which join together just above Myitkyina at the Myitsone confluence where China has started a mega dam project. It was tentions over this Chinese dam in Kachin that lead to the resumption of fighting in 2011.

Photo by Hpung Mai Awng @ahhpung

#irrawaddy #river #malihka #chinese #dam #kachin #manmaw #sunset #everydaykachin

Being a Himalayan nation, Kachin shares the same w

Being a Himalayan nation, Kachin shares the same weather system with the rest of it's mountain neighbors which is a mostly dry winter and a very wet monsoon season following it, starting around April/May.

Myitkyina, Njang dung Anglican Bishop hall

Photo by Saiwan RoiSan @saiwanroisan
#himalaya #moonsoon #season #kachin #everydaykachin #nightphotography #flooding

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