(Edited and translated from the original in Burmese) As a Captain (King’s Commissioned Officer) in the Burma Rifles, I was evacuated with other military officers and essential staff when the Japanese invaded Burma in early 1942, and the British had to make a hasty retreat to India. In India, Kachin and Karen military evacuees like […]
Photo: CBI history Since the few remaining months leading up to the end of 1948, the Karen Nation Union(KNU) troops had been fighting the HPSPL government. On July 3 in 1948, the KNU troops attacked the police station in Tahtong and took control of the town. The same year on August 31, the KNU and […]
(An abbreviated version of the Pangmu Duwa Lahpai Zau Tu’s Oral Rendition) Our first homeland (Majoi Shingra) was said to have been on a vast, fertile plateau somewhere up north in Mongolia. The Majoi Shingra community thrived, and in no time evolved into a strong major race, the land becoming known as Singhpaw Dan Layang […]
Du Kaba Malizup Zau Mai passed away at a private hospital in Rangoon after a long illness on October 27. Du Kaba Zau Mai was of the Nhkum clan but apparently took Malizup (Mali River Confluence) as his family name to honor his Hka Hku heritage. He was one of the founding members (popularly referred […]
Photo: Kachin Rangers (WWII in Color) Kachin Exalted After the Japanese surrender, all Northern Kachin Levies (NKL) personnel gathered at Dabak Yang, camping and resting leisurely in temporary huts we had built ourselves. In October 1944, we received the order from the headquarters affirming the NKL’s mission of defeating the Japanese was complete and we […]
Lahpai Zau June grew up a widow’s son in the small village of Loi Kang, not far from the town of Kutkai. As a young lad, he walked the 3 miles back and forth from Loi Kang to Kutkai to attend primary school. It was a time when the teaching of Kachin had newly become […]
