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 […]
When official recognition of schools in non-government areas in Kachin and Northern Shan States was withdrawn in the aftermath of the renewed Kachin war of 2011, students from these areas, most of whom are internally displaced, found themselves no longer eligible to take government regulated matriculation exams. This meant that they were deprived of opportunities to pursue […]
Photo: The great Padang Manau at Sinlum Kaba March 1945 (CC Naw Ja) Clan oral history has it that Duwa Zau Bawm was the Gauri Lahpai chief who founded Sinlum Kaba, one of the many villages that dotted the Sinlum hills overlooking Yunan, China. The Sinlum hills were part of the domain of the Lahpai Gauri […]
