The ethnic Jingpho (or Kachin) are the primary speakers of Jingpho language, numbering approximately 900,000 speakers.
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Other neighbouring residents of Kachin State include the Shans (Thai/Lao related), the Lisus, the Rawangs, the Nagas, and the Burmans, the latter forming the largest ethnic group in Burma, also called Bamar.
They were joined in Burma by American lead Kachin guerrillas were armed and coordinated by the American liaison organisation, OSS Detachment 101 that led, armed, and coordinated them.
On February 4, Burmese government and the Kachin Independence Army met in Ruili, China and agreed to reduce military tension in Kachin State and hold further peace talks later in February.
According to the Kachin Hill Tribes Regulation of 1895, administrative responsibility was accepted by the British government on the left bank of the Irrawaddy for the country south of the Nmaikha, and on the right bank for the country south of a line drawn from the confluence of the Malikha and Nmaikha through the northern limit of the Laban district and including the jade mines.
The Shan and Karenni states were given the right to secession after 10 years, the Kachin their own state, and the Chin a special division.
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The Karen people aspired to have the regions where they formed the majority turned into a subdivision or "state" within Burma similar to what the Shan, Kachin and Chin peoples had been given.
Currently under the control of the Kachin Independence Army, the ruling military government is demanding to handover Laiza and Mai Ja Yang to Military of Burma before the implementation of the new constitution of Burma.
Ola Hanson (born June 25, 1864 in Åhus, Sweden - died October 17, 1927) was a Swedish-American missionary who worked for the Kachin people in Burma.
The green fan-throated lizard Ptyctolaemus gularis is a species of agamid lizard found in North East India (Assam, Khasi Hills, Arunachal Pradesh) China (Tibet), Myanmar (Kachin, China)
The term first appeared in the English language in 1870s, after the British Indian Army encountered the sticks in their border conflicts against the Kachins of north east Burma (and it is from their language that term is derived).
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Winwa, Shwegu, a village in Shwegu Township, Bhamo District, in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma
For the "recruiter"/kidnappers the ethno-linguistic ties between the Jingpo citizens of Dehong and those of Kachin are an enabling factor, as is the ineffectiveness of Chinese-allied Myanmar police in this region of de facto independence (Cf. Nayoubeng Mountain militia); Interpol is of even less use, as Myanmar itself is a rogue state.