A trader displays his wares. Kachin State in Myanmar is home to lucrative jade and amber mines. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images
Kachin Independence Army (KIA) troops walk through Ka Htang Yang village in Kachin state. Photograph: Zau Ring Hpra
Govt atrocities, of the disenfrancised ethnic population in Myanmar, are synonymous with the Rohingya story but thousands of genocidal gunshots have been fired, for decades, at the non-Rohingya – the ethnic Kachin, the largely Christian group, whose story is easier to be supplanted by whichever other narratives that fit the bill with the geopolitical interests of those at the hem of power, who pulled the string on the global stage. The information you consumed has been curated, on purpose. At industrial scale, profitably. There's no free lunch?
If the international trend should be our guide, I believe that the ethnic Kachin has been sidelined on purpose: their land is not just home to villages and rice-fields but is also the location of billions of dollars worth of resources, such as amber and jade mines, so the international forces of greed will want to extinguish the native inhabitants who reside between them and their goal.
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‘Slow genocide’: Myanmar’s invisible war on the Kachin Christian minority
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