SAC’s fighter jets on Monday raided KIA’s frontline positions at Alaw Bum, Laja Bum, Hpunlum Bum and 19th Battalion headquarters in Momauk township. In attempts to reoccupy the Alaw Bum post, a strategically important frontline base which was overrun by KIA troops on March 25, SAC’s fighter jets made 14 sorties, reportedly from Myitkyina’s Nampong […]
Peaceful protest and demonstration today (March 20th) by The Singphos & Tai Khamtis, The Tangsas, The Yobins (Lisu) in front of World War II Cemetary in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh in India to express their solidarity with the Kachins, Nagas, Nepalese and Tai Khamtis of Myanmar has conveyed that these communities though separated by […]
Photo: Htoi Awng After waiting more than 70 years for fulfilment of the promises made our forefathers as co-authors of the Panglong Agreement, we Kachins currently find ourselves at a crossroads, faced with a two-fold path towards achieving our equal rights goal. We can either take the electoral path that opened up in 2010 after more […]
Photo: The 2020/21 prescribed Geography text book for the Seventh Standard U Pan Yee’s Kyunnoke Doh Taingpyi (Our Country) was the school text book on Geography that raised the ire of Kachins far and wide for its demeaning portrayal of the Kachin and Chin as hill tribes people who resort to thievery to escape starvation. […]
Photo: Kachin Leaders with the Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry (FACE); Maymyo, April 1947. (Illustrated London News) I had the privilege of close personal encounters with Bogyoke Aung San on three separate occasions. All of the meetings were unscheduled but nonetheless significant, as they took place in the crucial pre-independence years of our nation, and provide […]
Liveth there a Judsonian with a soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my Alma Mater. It was the first morning of the first week of June 1929, the official opening day of the new term at Judson College. Approximately 800 students were gathered at the assembly hall of […]
