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	Kachin State on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The state is sparsely populated; Jinghpaw-speaking Kachins constitute the largest group.
		Antigovernment insurgents, active in Kachin State since Myanmar achieved independence in 1948, signed a cease-fire agreement with the government in 1993.
		Kachin Rangers: Allied guerrillas in World War II Burma.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KachinS1t.asp (410 words)

	Kachin State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kachin State (Jingphaw Mungdan), is the northernmost state of Myanmar.
		The Kachin language is the lingua franca in the State, and has a written version based on the Roman alphabet.
		Kachin State was formed in 1948 out of the British Burma civil districts of Bhamo and Myitkyina, together with the larger northern district of Puta-o.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kachin_State (503 words)

	KACHIN HILLS - LoveToKnow Article on KACHIN HILLS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Owing to the great number of tribes, sub-tribes and clans of the Kachins, the part of the Kachin hills which has been taken under administration in the Myitkyina and Bhamo.districts was divided into 40 Kachin hill tracts (recently reduced to five).
		Now the Kachins are on both sides of the border of Upper Burma, and are a force to be reckoned with by frontier administrators.
		A strong force of military police is stationed at Myitkyina, with several outposts in the Kachin hills, and the country is never wholly free from crimes of violence committed by the Kachins.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KA/KACHIN_HILLS.htm (508 words)

	kachin2
		Kachine tombs are built on mountain tops and surrounded with bamboo pipes which howl in the wind.
		The effect on the Kachin of all these external influences, together with economic cycles in the jade, silver and opium traddes, means that their recorded history-parents a picture of an area in kaleidoscopic change.
		Kachin villages are usually built on the sides and tops of hills, the practical siting factors being defence, water supply and access to agricultural land, although it is still lishing a new village.
	www.geocities.com /zawaung_2000/kachin2.html (2323 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Assessment for Kachins in Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Kachin have two of the six factors that increase the chances of future rebellion: territorial concentration and a high level of support for group organizations.
		By the mid-1950s, the Kachin were engaged in rebellion against the state and conventional protest activities began in the early 1960s (REB55X = 4; PROT60X = 2).
		Kachin state is located in the Golden Triangle, a region which is a major producer of the world=s heroin.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/assessment.asp?groupId=77503 (736 words)

	Kachin State
		The majority of Kachin are Jinghpaw speakers, and Jinghpaw is one of the officially recognized minority languages of China.
		Under the British regime (1885-1947), most Kachin territory was specially administered as a frontier region, but most of the area inhabited by the Kachin became after Burmese independence a distinct semiautonomous unit within the country.
		Kachin pasoe (sarong) and Kachin shoulder-bags are popular through the length and breadth of the country.
	www.yadanabon.com /kachin.htm (905 words)

	DaVinci: Test> World> Kachin
		The Kachin, a minority culture in their country, opposed the Burmese by siding with the British during World War II.
		Kachin State was also discovered to have marginally increased its cultivation in...
		The forests of Burma?s northern Kachin state, which shares a long border with China, are still considered one of the world?s largest remaining bio...
	www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Test/World/Kachin (313 words)

	Kachin State -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kachin is a (The way something is with respect to its main attributes) state of (A mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal) Burma.
		But among the Kachin people, approximately 97% are christians (mainly (Follower of Baptistic doctrines) Baptist and (A member of a Catholic church) Catholic).
		Kachin people are now living mainly in Kachin state but there are some living in China and India.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kachin_state.htm (407 words)

	Diran's Kachin State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kachin State was an area of Burma that had just recently opened up due to the cease-fire signed in 1993 between the Kachin Independence Army, or K.I.A, and the Burmese government.
		Kachin State is the northern most part of Burma bordering India on its west, Tibet to its north, and China to the east.
		Kachin State was not an area easily penetrated since it bordered tribal autonomous areas of India's Naga hills and remote parts of China.
	bangkokatoz.com /Diran_Kachin_State.htm (3060 words)

	Kachin people struggle to maintain their culture - The Washington Times: World Briefings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Community leaders are urging the state government to switch to the Kachin language at primary schools with Singpho children, and are encouraging Singphos to marry within the tribe.
		About 2,000 Kachins — most of them Singphos from India —; came to a two-day gathering in early spring to celebrate their heritage under a huge covering of bamboo poles and palm leaves.
		The festival was held along the Stilwell Road that crosses the India-Burma border to the Kachin heartland in Burma.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20030613-104535-8170r.htm (518 words)

	The Kachin Post
		NDA-K is the first Kachin group to reach a ceasefire agreement with the State Law and Order Restoration Council, in 1989, after the collapse of the CPB the same year.
		Kachin People’s Party (KPP)—Founded on April 17, 2002 in Thailand by young Kachin inside and outside of Kachin State to lay the foundation for an “appropriate and meaningful democratic nation” which is essential to Kachin people and to resist all forms of dictatorship and despotic rule.
		Kachin National Organization (KNO)—A political organization founded by overseas Kachin and a group of elders from the Kachin homeland on January 9, 1999.
	www.kachinpost.com /korgs.html (664 words)

	Welcome to mrtv3.net.mm
		What we behold now is Kachin State which is located in the extreme north of Myanmar lie between the upper region of the Ayeyarwady and the Chindwin river.
		Kachin State is featured basically with the plain mountain ranges and a lot of summits, big tree forests, cool clear brooks all silence.
		Kachins who are one of the union nationalities have seven ethnic branches whose traditional dances are different to each other.
	www.mrtv3.net.mm /pages/kachin.html (228 words)

	Minorities At Risk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Group members are concentrated in Burma's northern mountain region in Kachin state and in some northern parts of Shan state.
		There are also Kachins in neighboring Thailand and in China's Yunnan region.
		Instruction in all state schools is conducted in Burmese, even in areas where ethnic groups form a majority of the population.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/burkach.htm (768 words)

	Kachin State, Northern Myanmar (Burma)
		Kachins are Jinghpaw, Maru (Lawngwaw), Lashi (Lachit), Zaiwa (Azi), Rawang, Lisu and five other sub-groups.
		Kachin living in the Democratic Republic of India are called Singphos.
		Singpho themselves do call Kachin because the word "Kachin" refers to as "Wunpawng", meaning: "United", which includes all descendants of six sub-classes of Kachin Class.
	www.kachinstate.com (633 words)

	Burma: "They Came and Destroyed Our Village Again": V. Lessons from Ceasefires in Kachin and Mon States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although the KIO and local Kachin NGO resettlement and reconstruction activities generally exhibited poor strategic and site planning due to limited human and financial resources, an impressive range of infrastructure and community development projects was nevertheless implemented.
		Kachin leaders claim that the SPDC wants to keep their area underdeveloped and attempts to undermine the KIO’s standing within Kachin communities.
		As in Kachin State, the ceasefires have brought new opportunities to develop agriculture and opportunities for travel and local trade, which is particularly important to villagers.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2005/burma0605/7.htm (1473 words)

	Phil Dunlap's Kachin System of Burmese Groundfighting posts to the Underground forum
		The Kachin state is in the mountainous jungle region of Northern Burma.The Kachin's are a fierce warlike but friendly people they are an ethnic group comprising pprox 4% of the burmese population.
		The people of both the Kachin and Karen state both have their own armed groups and wish to be autonomous as stated in the countries constitution.
		The Kachins are the Tartars from the region south of the Great Gobi Desert in Mongolia (Majoi Shingra Bum), from where they migrated south in separate tribes, possibly at long intervals.
	stickgrappler.tripod.com /bando/kachin.html (9643 words)

	Kachin's Anti-Government Forces Boxun News
		Founded on April 17, 2002 in Thailand by young Kachin inside and outside of Kachin State to lay the foundation for an "appropriate and meaningful democratic nation" which is essential to Kachin people and to resist all forms of dictatorship and despotic rule.
		Captain in the 1st Kachin Rifles in 1946 and fought against the Communist Party of Burma in Irrawaddy delta region in 1948.
		Kachin of Ngochan tribe from the Yunnan frontier.
	www.peacehall.com /news/gb/english/2005/03/200503120317.shtml (2599 words)

	Kachin representatives to meet Razali Ismail
		According to a Kachin politician, over one hundred Kachin students and civilians signed an agenda, which is to be handed to Mr.
		Amongst the issues the Kachin representatives intend to raise are democracy and the federal union.
		The Kachin politician talking to Mizzima News alleged that "the KIO is not working for the politics in the interest of the Kachin people but only for the SPDC by listening to whatever the SPCD had to say during the ten-year period of cease-fire".
	www.mizzima.com /archives/news-in-2002/news-in-aug/03-aug02-02.htm (281 words)

	Footnotes to History- K and L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kachin Republic- The Kachins are an ethnic group of northern Burma.
		The Kachins seceded from Burma in the early 1960s, and quickly gained control of most of Kachin State.
		Kachin rebels were allied with the Kuomintang at Mong Hsat during the early 1970s, but switched allegiance to the Burmese People's Republic after the victory of Communism in Indochina.
	www.buckyogi.com /footnotes/natkl.htm (5933 words)

	Special Warfare: Kachin Rangers: Allied guerrillas in World War II Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The three regiments of guerrillas -- the Karen Rifles, the Kachin Rifles, and the Kachin Levies -- were natural jungle fighting units, but they lacked the tactical training and the modern equipment that were needed to effectively battle Japan's mechanized infantry and armor.
		The successes of the V-Force Kachin Rangers and the Kachin Levies, as well as Stilwell's failure to garner support from the Chinese and from the British army for a conventional offensive against Burma, led Stilwell to expand his guerrilla operations.
		Each Kachin camp had an intelligence officer, usually an American officer, whose principal duties were to interrogate captured enemy soldiers or agents, debrief guerrilla patrols, and direct operations of the better-educated Kachins (those schooled by Christian missionaries), who acted as low-level intelligence agents reporting information by runners or via bamboo-container message drops.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HZY/is_4_15/ai_100230655 (1476 words)

	SSRC :: South Asia Program :: “The Kachin Spatiality in the Modern System of the States”
		The Kachin feel strongly that they are a nation of six tribes in Burma, China and India.
		Under the modern system of States, the Kachin, having become a minority in most of their territorial places, operate in social space that is defined by tangible and intangible ethnic markers.
		The past Kachin territorialities in the rugged mountainous terrain of the Southern Himalayas have transformed into present spatiality that can be best described through the Kachin social space.
	www.ssrc.org /programs/southasia/researchnetworks/borderlands/dean.page (517 words)

	Vitanova Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Historically then, the Kachin people are not opium growers, but many of them have been consumers, and a small fraction of those have become addicted to the subs tance.
		Though the KIA has never admitted it openly, most Kachins believe that the uncontrollable spread of heroin addiction among the rank and file was one of the many factors prompting its cease-fire with government troops.
		In 1959, when Kachin university students in Rangoon were organizing armed resistance against the government in the name of Kachin independence, I suggested that they first organize a movement to promote political awareness, social and economic development, and human resource development among the Kachin people before separation from Burma.
	www.vitanova.on.ca /article1998_1.htm (4099 words)

	Vol 9. No.8, October-November 2001 - Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While improving and expanding the infrastructure in Kachin State is much needed, the impact of this deal on the environment could prove to be disastrous.
		The Kachin State is part of the Indo-Burmese region listed by Dr. Norman Myers, an ecologist based at Oxford University’s Green College in England, as one of the eight "hottest hotspots for biodiversity" in the world.
		Kachin State logging provided employment for a few thousand loggers in each of the towns along the border.
	www.irrawaddy.org /database/2001/vol9.8/cover.html (1939 words)

	The Kachin Post
		Shi Laika Ningnan — In 1943, the earliest Kachin language newspaper was published in India and distributed to northern Burma.
		After five issues, the editor was arrested in Rangoon for failing to submit his publication to the Press Scrutiny Board (PSB) censorship committee for publications, and the paper was shut down.
		The Kachin Post — Monthly Kachin language newspaper published on February 1, 2002, in Chiang Mai, Thailand by editor Naw Seng and some Kachin youth who are committed in freedom of press, independent journalism and democracy.
	www.kachinpost.com /kpublications.html (423 words)

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		The forests of Kachin State form part of an area said to be “very possibly the most bio-diverse, rich, temperate area on earth;”1 they also suffer from the highest rate of deforestation in Burma.
		Marginalisation of the Kachin people, in particular the lack of socio-economic development and the inequitable distribution of the benefits of resource extraction in Kachin State, was in part responsible for the insurgency.
		In addition, areas where the rate of deforestation is high, such as in Kachin State, the dry dipterocarp forests of the dry zone, or the mangroves of the Irrawaddy Delta, do not show up in countrywide deforestation figures.89 Some results have been extrapolated from small areas to the entire country, leading to further inaccuracies.
	www.globalwitness.org /reports/download.php/00108.doc (16236 words)

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