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At the Kung Law church In Moemawk townships, the Junta launched a direct airstrike. The Church was full of recently displaced families. 9 people were killed, 7 of them children. Uncredited poem "They fled their home not long ago, chased by the fire of war, seeking refuge, safety, a place to breathe once more. In the quiet of a church, they gathered for thanksgiving, children laughed, played, unburdened, in fleeting solace stood. Then came the roar of iron wings, a bomb tore through their sky. What sin, what crime, so great, that they must always cry? My heart shatters, again, and again, for those who suffer, without end. 15/11/2024" Photos by @yawng_htang #warcrimes #airstrike #idps #everydayeverywhere #Kachin #civiliancasualties #everydaykachin #studiosakse

Artist caption - The remaining dogs in Saing Mountain are burning the house. ဆိုင်းတောင် လက်ကျန်ခွေးတွေ အိမ်မီးဆက်ရှို့နေ Photo by @danhkungnawmaran EDK note: Hpakant is home to the very lucrative Jade mines. Since the 1994 ceasefire the Jade mines have been majority controlled by the Junta and their cronie companies. Hpakant is currently surrounded by the KIA and other anti-junta forces, with many police stations and government checkpoints already taken over. Hpakant, Jadecity, Kachinland.

Village hit by Junta air strikes, near Moe Mawk. Photo by @yawng_htang #kachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydaykachin

Displaced people's from Moe Mawk Kachin state who have been in the forest due to the fighting. Photo & caption by @yawng_htang #displaced #civilians #kachin #civilwar #everydaykachin #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #documentaryphotography Everyday Kachin note : IDP's who are hiding in the forests after fleeing their villages, have to not only feed & take care of their extended families, often including very young to very old. They also have to protect them from potential jet airstrikes. Just this year the Junta dropped a massive bomb directly on a large known IDP camp in Kachin. ( See past post)

Artist caption : trip to the deep forest. Energy recharge from nature. Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang #kachin #himalaya #forest #foothills #fishingtrip #everydaykachin #everydayasia #everydayeverywhere

New logo for Everyday Kachin. Special thanks to @sut15 for this wonderful design and others.

Citizens of Laiza sheltering by the river that borders China, afraid there will be more jet airstrikes. 4 more recent airstrikes hit around Laiza city in A Len Bum and Ja hta. The market which is mostly Chinese shop owners have closed down and the Chinese government has encouraged its citizens to leave the border area. Photo by Yawng Htang #kachin #airstrikes #russianjets #everydayeverywhere #everydaymyanmar #orwellian #everydaykachin #bombing #laiza

Burial ceremony for those who had already been displaced from this war & now have lost thier lives in it, during the Munglai hkyet IDP camp bombing. 10 October 2023 Among the 29 dead, there were 16 students Currently, 57 injured people are being treated at the Laiza Public Hospital. Today was a very sad day for the entire Kachin people. Photos & caption from Simsa Kasa Multimedia

Burmese military airstrike on the Munglaihkyet IDP camp around the early AM of Oct 10th, just outside the capital of Laiza. At least 27 civilians confirmed dead, including many children. Photographer : Unknown More updates & images to come #restinpeace #internallydisplacedpersons #longestcivilwar #everydaykachin #stopbombingcivilians #everydaymyanmar

Photo by DeeLabang. @bawkdee15 EDK note : KaLang suspension bridge. Due to the many valleys & gorges and the low population density, most of Putao region has suspension bridges to cross the many head water streams flowing down from the Himalayan glaciers. #everydayeverywhere #suspentionbridge #putao #kachinhimalaya #easternhimalaya #everydaykachin

Even though i can't see anything around me, i surely know that you're somewhere up there. Photo & caption by Ja Sant Pan EDK note : taken on a 28 day one way hike to Mali Mountain. The return trip took about 1/2 of the time. #alpinelife #alpinemind #hkakaborazi #himalaya #easternhimalaya #kachin #kachinhimalaya #womanalpinist #everydayasia

Alpenglow on Madwe Razi (mountain name ) Photo & caption by @tunwaiaung #putao #himalaya #kachin #everydayeverywhere #everydaykachin #easternhimalaya

Mt. Choymagur. - ချောရ်မကုရ် Putao region Photo by Shadau Bawk Ja #putao #kachinhimalaya #kachin #easternhimalaya #everydayasia #everydayeverywhere #abovethetreeline

Untitled Photo by Hkun Naung Zinwa #everydaykachin #untitled #handprint #kachin #shansubstate

Artist caption On the eastern edge of the Himalaya at the Kachin-Tibetan border there are no villages, rivers or any kind of permanent settlements but some of the tribes go to collect wild roots & tubers that grow at high altitude. Photo by @foliolibre #himalaya #putao #kachin #alpine #abovethetreeline #everydaykachin #everydayasia #

Artist caption Ziyardam Village stands as one of the last settlements in the Putao Township & the closest village to the snow capped glaciers. EDK note This is the last village accessible by motorized transport, however the road is a narrow single track dirt bike trail that becomes largely unusable during the monsoon season. Photo by @hkunr #putao #glacier #peaks #kachin #everydaykachin #studiosakse #himalaya #kachinhimalaya #munglanwandung

The China - Kachin Border, which has been closed to human traffic and goods since the very begging of the pandemic. This section of the border, just oppsite the Je Yang IDP camp, near Laiza used to be completely open. Photo by Ring Nu Awng @ringnuawng #chinaborder #Kachin #everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #sakse #studiosakse

Model: Ja Seng Ing Make-up Artist: LuLu Awn Nka Photo: Ring Nu Awng Photo and caption: @ringnuawng #everydaykachin #portrait #jinghpaw #ethniccostume #maru #everydayasia #everydayeverywhere

The night market in Laiza serves a variety of traditional Kachin foods and snacks as well as some Burmese and Chinese snacks - Photo by @brangliaung #everydaykachin #kachin #kachinfood #laiza #laizamarket #everydaymyanmar #burma #blackandwhitephotography #everydayeverywhere

ဆက်တင် Surreal Lana Zup အိပ်မက်ဆိုတာမျိုးက အဖြူအမည်းနဲ့ပဲ မြင်ရတာ Dream Can be seen As black and white ချောက်နက်ကြီးထဲ ပြုတ်ကျတော့ မျက်လုံးထဲက အဝါရောင်သွေးတွေ ထွက်လာတယ် As I fell into the abyss, Yellow blood From my eye မနက်ဖြန်ကို ရောက်ဖို့ဆိုတာလည်း အိပ်မပျော်ခြင်းလောက် လွယ်ကူမနေဘူးလေ Desire to reach tomorrow, It's not as easy as Insomnia နားကြပ်ကိုနားထဲ အတင်းထိုးထည့်လိုက်မှ ဒီကမ္ဘာကြီး အနီရောင်မှန်း သိရတယ် After wearing the earphone by force just realized the color of the world, is Red ကိုယ့်ဖိနပ်ပေါ် ကိုယ့်ခြေထောက်နဲ့ကိုယ် မတ်မတ်ရပ်ဖို့ဆိုတာကလည်း မိုးတွေရွာနေမှဖြစ်မှာ To stand up On my own slipper, with my own legs, It has to be raining (heavily). ရေစိုရင် အပြာရောင်ပြောင်းတတ်တဲ့ အသံတစ်သံ ဖမ်းမိထားတယ် I’ve catched a voice Turns blue When it's wet လမ်းမကြီးကတော့ ခုထိ ကာလာမပါသေးပါဘူး ဖိနပ်တော့ အဆင်သင့်စီးထားလိုက်တယ် The road Still colorless Me, wearing slipper and ready position အစီအစဉ်တွေပြလို့ ကုန်သွားရင် After all those programs, ဘဝကြီးက 'To be continue..' နဲ့ ဆုံးသွားမှာလည်း သိနေတယ် I do know that Life will end with “to be continued..” Poet: Thayell Photo: @abstractheoctopus #everydaykachin #fineartphotography #visualpoetry #everydaymyanmar

ဆက်တင် Surreal Lana Zup အိပ်မက်ဆိုတာမျိုးက အဖြူအမည်းနဲ့ပဲ မြင်ရတာ Dream Can be seen As black and white ချောက်နက်ကြီးထဲ ပြုတ်ကျတော့ မျက်လုံးထဲက အဝါရောင်သွေးတွေ ထွက်လာတယ် As I fell into the abyss, Yellow blood From my eye မနက်ဖြန်ကို ရောက်ဖို့ဆိုတာလည်း အိပ်မပျော်ခြင်းလောက် လွယ်ကူမနေဘူးလေ Desire to reach tomorrow, It's not as easy as Insomnia နားကြပ်ကိုနားထဲ အတင်းထိုးထည့်လိုက်မှ ဒီကမ္ဘာကြီး အနီရောင်မှန်း သိရတယ် After wearing the earphone by force just realized the color of the world, is Red ကိုယ့်ဖိနပ်ပေါ် ကိုယ့်ခြေထောက်နဲ့ကိုယ် မတ်မတ်ရပ်ဖို့ဆိုတာကလည်း မိုးတွေရွာနေမှဖြစ်မှာ To stand up On my own slipper, with my own legs, It has to be raining (heavily). ရေစိုရင် အပြာရောင်ပြောင်းတတ်တဲ့ အသံတစ်သံ ဖမ်းမိထားတယ် I’ve catched a voice Turns blue When it's wet လမ်းမကြီးကတော့ ခုထိ ကာလာမပါသေးပါဘူး ဖိနပ်တော့ အဆင်သင့်စီးထားလိုက်တယ် The road Still colorless Me, wearing slipper and ready position အစီအစဉ်တွေပြလို့ ကုန်သွားရင် After all those programs, ဘဝကြီးက 'To be continue..' နဲ့ ဆုံးသွားမှာလည်း သိနေတယ် I do know that Life will end with “to be continued..” Poet: Thayell Photo: @abstractheoctopus #everydaykachin #fineartphotography #visualpoetry #everydaymyanmar

ဆက်တင် Surreal Lana Zup အိပ်မက်ဆိုတာမျိုးက အဖြူအမည်းနဲ့ပဲ မြင်ရတာ Dream Can be seen As black and white ချောက်နက်ကြီးထဲ ပြုတ်ကျတော့ မျက်လုံးထဲက အဝါရောင်သွေးတွေ ထွက်လာတယ် As I fell into the abyss, Yellow blood From my eye မနက်ဖြန်ကို ရောက်ဖို့ဆိုတာလည်း အိပ်မပျော်ခြင်းလောက် လွယ်ကူမနေဘူးလေ Desire to reach tomorrow, It's not as easy as Insomnia နားကြပ်ကိုနားထဲ အတင်းထိုးထည့်လိုက်မှ ဒီကမ္ဘာကြီး အနီရောင်မှန်း သိရတယ် After wearing the earphone by force just realized the color of the world, is Red ကိုယ့်ဖိနပ်ပေါ် ကိုယ့်ခြေထောက်နဲ့ကိုယ် မတ်မတ်ရပ်ဖို့ဆိုတာကလည်း မိုးတွေရွာနေမှဖြစ်မှာ To stand up On my own slipper, with my own legs, It has to be raining (heavily). ရေစိုရင် အပြာရောင်ပြောင်းတတ်တဲ့ အသံတစ်သံ ဖမ်းမိထားတယ် I’ve catched a voice Turns blue When it's wet လမ်းမကြီးကတော့ ခုထိ ကာလာမပါသေးပါဘူး ဖိနပ်တော့ အဆင်သင့်စီးထားလိုက်တယ် The road Still colorless Me, wearing slipper and ready position အစီအစဉ်တွေပြလို့ ကုန်သွားရင် After all those programs, ဘဝကြီးက 'To be continue..' နဲ့ ဆုံးသွားမှာလည်း သိနေတယ် I do know that Life will end with “to be continued..” Poet: Thayell Photo: @abstractheoctopus #everydaykachin #fineartphotography #visualpoetry #everydaymyanmar

ဆက်တင် Surreal Lana Zup အိပ်မက်ဆိုတာမျိုးက အဖြူအမည်းနဲ့ပဲ မြင်ရတာ Dream Can be seen As black and white ချောက်နက်ကြီးထဲ ပြုတ်ကျတော့ မျက်လုံးထဲက အဝါရောင်သွေးတွေ ထွက်လာတယ် As I fell into the abyss, Yellow blood From my eye မနက်ဖြန်ကို ရောက်ဖို့ဆိုတာလည်း အိပ်မပျော်ခြင်းလောက် လွယ်ကူမနေဘူးလေ Desire to reach tomorrow, It's not as easy as Insomnia နားကြပ်ကိုနားထဲ အတင်းထိုးထည့်လိုက်မှ ဒီကမ္ဘာကြီး အနီရောင်မှန်း သိရတယ် After wearing the earphone by force just realized the color of the world, is Red ကိုယ့်ဖိနပ်ပေါ် ကိုယ့်ခြေထောက်နဲ့ကိုယ် မတ်မတ်ရပ်ဖို့ဆိုတာကလည်း မိုးတွေရွာနေမှဖြစ်မှာ To stand up On my own slipper, with my own legs, It has to be raining (heavily). ရေစိုရင် အပြာရောင်ပြောင်းတတ်တဲ့ အသံတစ်သံ ဖမ်းမိထားတယ် I’ve catched a voice Turns blue When it's wet လမ်းမကြီးကတော့ ခုထိ ကာလာမပါသေးပါဘူး ဖိနပ်တော့ အဆင်သင့်စီးထားလိုက်တယ် The road Still colorless Me, wearing slipper and ready position အစီအစဉ်တွေပြလို့ ကုန်သွားရင် After all those programs, ဘဝကြီးက 'To be continue..' နဲ့ ဆုံးသွားမှာလည်း သိနေတယ် I do know that Life will end with “to be continued..” Poet: Thayell Photo: @abstractheoctopus #everydaykachin #fineartphotography #visualpoetry #everydaymyanmar

#Schrapnel from the attack today on the KBC's Kachin Theological college in #Kukai. It was hit with 3 #Artillery shells from the #BurmeseArmy, injuring 4 students. Another university town, #MaiJaYang, was also hit in a separate attack as well as an #IDPcamp of civilians who fled the conflict. Mai ja yang city is on the China-Myanmar border and has Kachin National College, College of Education and Federal Law Academy and other schools, KIO It is also known as Education City Photo by unknown artist #KhitThitMedia #Kachin #everydaykachin #sakse #CivilWar #everydayeverwhere

Fresh graves for the bodies of the victims of the recent Burmese Army bombing in Hpakant, ANang Pa. Photo by Anonymous #massgrave #bombing #civilians #CivilWar #Kachin #everydaykachin #everydayeverywhere #everydaymyanmar

Mass grave from the recent bombing. Burmese army jet bombing of a music concert in Kachin. Deaths are over 100 now, as the army also blocked roads with access to hospitals. photo by Uru Shagan - Alias

Kachin tribal chiefs leading the #Manau celebration in Shatapru quarter for the Kachin Baptist Convention's 50th anniversary, Myitkyina. The #kachin people often celebrate the Manau around February. Men carry swords, and women different accessories ( fans or handkerchiefs ). Tribal chiefs take the lead of an extremely long procession, lasting for hours, where people, village after village, follow each other for a dance that takes the form of a giant spiral. The #jinghpaw ethnic group lives on both sides of the border between China and Myanmar. Although the Manau finds its roots in animist beliefs, it is celebrated by Christians today. Photograph by Zau Ring Hpra @zauringhpra #everydaykachin #jinghpaw #manaucelebration #studiosakse #manau #kbc

Artist Caption: It's so muddy in Ban Dawng villages and others near that cars and even motorcycles are difficult to move around. We can only use our water buffalo drawn carts. Everyday Kachin note: Now is the Himalayan monsoon season which ends about 1 month earlier then the rest of SE Asia. Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang #everydaykachin #kachinland #everydaymyanmar #myanmar #studiosakse

To help celebrate the 10th anniversary of Everyday Africa/The Everyday Projects, Sakse has been invited to take part in a print sale. The revenue from the sale of prints will split 50-50 between the photographer and The Everyday Projects. As the sale is planned for mid-November, we are looking for the photo submission for this sale now. Please send us a message or email (submit@everydaykachin.com) with suggested images by September 21. @everydayafrica @everydayeverywhere #everydaykachin #kachinstate #myanmar #everydaymyanmar

everydaykachin note: A group of water buffalo herders resting near the University of Mai Ja Yang building. The university is located in the city of Mai Ja Yang - the KIO's second capital city. Mai Ja Yang is the home to many educational institutions, including the Federal Law Academy (FLA), the Teachers' Training College (TTC), the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS) among many others. Photo by Hkun Li: @jocoseboy #everydaykachin #kachinstate #myanmar #maijayang #everydaymyanmar

artist caption : Many jobless people all over Burma moved north and took up small gold mining after the Burmese military coup. There are many conflicts, political instability and chaos in Burma and people are using it to illegally exploit gold and other resources in Kachin state. Everyday Kachin note : In these makeshift gold mines, the use of mercury to collect gold is common. The toxicity of mercury can lead to serious skin problems and in many causes, loss of fingers. Mercury can also attack the nervous system and exposure can lead to lifelong disabilities. Please see link in the comments for more context Photo By Yawng Htang @yawng_htang #everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #war #conflict #civilwar #displacement #refugee #gold #goldmining #studiosakse

After the long slow migration from Mongolia, the Kachin people have been settled in Burma, India & China since long before those borders were clearly defined. In China they are an officially recognized ethnic group by the name Jingpo. They host Manau festivals and keep close contacts with their clan brothers and sisters living within Burma. This photoshoot of a Jingpo model shows the traditional outfit of the Kachin ethnic group in China. Credit to @shaoshu_minzu Photo by 巾帼哥哥 #everydaykachin #everydayeverywhere #everydaymyanmar #kachin #ethnic #traditional #jingpo #model

Artist caption : Kachin Prewedding Photo by Hkun Rein @hkunr #everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #wedding #kachin

Everyday Kachin Note : Depression is a serious issue in the IDP camps. With the displacement lasting over a decade now, the feeling of not being able to provide for one's family weighs heavy on this group of previous self-sufficient farmers & hunters. Finding a healthy meal for one's family is something everyone of these displaced people are very capable of doing, but it requires access to land to grow and forests to hunt. Despite making just a few hundred dollars per year, these families had a rich life in many ways. A life that can not be recreated without land. Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang #everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #war #conflict #civilwar #displacement #refugee #studiosakse

Artist caption : Oct 6th 2013. In a rare chance the KIO leadership was able to meet with UN representatives in the no-man's land between the KIO and Burmese Army control areas. The highest ranking KIO representative to join was Gen. Sumlut Gun Maw. These peace talks collapsed and many observers agreed that the real point for the Burmese to organize Peace talks was just to get sanctions lifted, not to build short or long term peace. The Burmese army was on the offensive for the duration of the peace talks and often greatly increased the severity of attacks just prior to a fresh round of talks. Photo by Ryan Libre @foliolibre #everydayeverywhere #everydaykachin #everydayasia #kachin #UN

Artist caption : The students were taking Kachin Subject exam on the first day of matriculation exam in Laiza High School, 21 April, 2022. Despite the ongoing war and pandemic in Kachin, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) began giving matriculation exams in KIO-administered areas yesterday (21 April). A total of 2,192 students are taking the exam, which took place until the 28th of April, 2022. Everyday Kachin Notes : The number of students studying under the KIO has increased by about 50% since the military coup. Many Kachin students were previously educated under the Burmese education system. Since the coup, many of these schools have closed or are no longer accessible to them. Photo by Ring Nu Awng @ringnuawng #everydayeverywhere #everydaykachin #laiza #education #highschool #everydayasia #kachin

Artist caption : preparation for the Wedding. Everyday Kachin Note : A traditional Kachin wedding ceremony takes multiple days, with many steps that can't be skipped. In a part of the ceremonies, the two families meet to discuss the contents of the dowry. Cash is often not accepted and the demands which can include things like 500 eggs, can be used to test the groom will and love. After marriage, Kachin women keep their family names. The children take the father's name. Photo by Khai @kam_mun_khai #everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #wedding #kachin

artist caption : Many jobless people all over Burma moved north and took up small gold mining after the Burmese military coup. There are many conflicts, political instability and chaos in Burma and people are using it to illegally exploit gold and other resources in Kachin state. Jak kaji hte ja htu taw ai shara langai hpe mu mada ai re, Myen mung kata military coup byin ai hpang kaw na mungdan kata n ru n ra majan byin nga ai ten jinghpaw mungdaw ni hta raitim n tara n hprang htu ai lam ni law law hpe mu mada ai re. Everyday Kachin notes : This scene takes place in the photographer's hometown, Nam San Yang, that he has been documenting since 2011 as a part of his ongoing project “My Old Home”. He was forced to flee after the burmese military broke the ceasefire in June 2011. Since the coup instability and inflation has greatly increased in a nation that has hardly ever known economic stability, thus pushing people into black market resource extraction and trading. Due to the political instability, people have been increasingly taking advantage of gold and other resources in Kachin state particularly. Please check the comments for Burmese caption မြန်မာဘာသာပြန်​ကို comment တွင်ဖတ်နိုင်ပါသည်။ Photo by Yawng Htang @yawng_htang #everydaykachin #everydaymyanmar #everydayeverywhere #everydayasia #war #conflict #civilwar #displacement #refugee #studiosakse