Opinion
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: Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) In Myanmar, the armed struggle by ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) against central regime has continued to be a mainstream political movement for non-Burmese ethnic peoples and such political movement always calls for the right of self-determination and equality among ethnic peoples. At the same time, current democratic transition […]
Myanmar goes to national elections on 8 November, five years after the National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won the first ever free-and-fair polls since the country embarked on a process of democratic transition. Over 90 political parties are contesting this time, which is a healthy sign of a broadening […]
Photo: Kachin State People’s Party Conference (KSPP’s page) As we all know, the Myanmar (Bamar) are the majority population, numerically speaking, in relation to the other nationality peoples who co-founded the Union of Myanmar (Burma). Today the non-Bamar peoples are represented by seven ethnic states: Chin, Kachin, Kayah (Karenni), Kayin (Karen), Mon, Rakhine (Arakan) and […]
Photo: TNLA soldiers (PSLF/TNLA) Introduction The Kachins in northern Shan state of Burma, officially known as Myanmar, have been rampant and the territories that the Kachins have been living in the northern Shan state belong to them for centuries. Therefore, the Kachins consider these territories in northern Shan state as the second home after the […]
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. […]
