Myanmar: The Kachin Struggle For Freedom
The Oct. 31 deadline for the ethnic cease-fire groups in Burma to disarm has passed quietly in the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) capital of Laiza.
Observers are focused now on the ongoing KIO-...
The car came to an abrupt stop. "Get out," the driver said.
The car came to an abrupt stop. "Get out," the driver said.
Tim Patterson, for the Pulitzer Center (Photo by Ryan Libre)
In the north of Myanmar the Kachin people have been struggling for autonomy for generations.
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In the north of Myanmar the Kachin people have been struggling for autonomy for generations.
The path of the pen or the path of the sword? Young Kachin in northern Burma are preparing and learning on both fronts.
"My generation thinks there will be a war," says a 22-year-old cadet in the Kachin Independence Army, one of several armed groups that struggle for political autonomy on the frontiers of Myanmar....
A band of rebels has spent five decades struggling against the oppressive military regime.
Story & photos by Ryan Libre, for the Pulitzer Center
Loud voices jolt me awake. It's past midnight and I'm here in the Himalayan foothills of northern Myanmar illegally.
"Myanmar politics are the most complicated in the world," said Daw Kong, director of the Kachin research and information network, as we settled down for tea and conversation on a hilltop near the C
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Ryan Libre is a photojournalist based in a small village near Chiang Mai, Thailand who tells stories of places and people that fall below the radar screen of mainstream media. Past projects include...
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Tim Patterson is a travel journalist based in Vermont whose work has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Worldhum.com and the Common Language Project. Tim is also a contributing editor...