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People
Kachin
The Kachin are like the Burmans a TibetoBurman tribe.
They live in the mountainous and barely accessible North of Myanmar.
Just like the Karen the Kachin making up about 6 % of the Burmese
population have been fighting for decades for a sovereign state.
The Kachin Independence Army counts about 5,000 armed men.
Most Kachin are animists, but some of them have converted to Christianity.
The most important are:
This page: http://www.cockatoo.com/english/myanmar/myanmar_people_kachin.htm
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