Northern
Command based in Myitkyina spearheads genocidal campaign against Kachin
people and commits heinous war crimes: rape, torture, execution, and
destruction of hundreds and thousands of civilian lives. AGD and
AirBagan donated 70Million Kyat to sponsor soldiers to continue
committing these atrocities. Now is the Time to ACT! Boycott AirBagan
and AGD Bank if you are Kachin, or even have a sense of empathy for our
plight.
Kachin, tribal peoples occupying parts of northeastern Myanmar (Burma) and contiguous areas ofIndia (Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland) and China (Yunnan). The greatest number of Kachin live in Myanmar (roughly 790,000), but some 150,000 live in China and a few thousand in India. Numbering about 1012,000 in the late 20th century, they speak a variety of languages of the Tibeto-Burman group and are thereby distinguished as Jinghpaw, or Jingpo (Chingpaw [Ching-p’o], Singhpo), Atsi, Maru (Longvo), Lachid, Nung (Rawang), and Lisu .
The traditional Kachin religion is a form of animistic ancestor cult entailing animalsacrifice. As a result of the arrival of American and European missionaries in Burma beginning in the late 19th century, a majority of the Kachin are Christian, mainly Baptist and Roman Catholic. Among the Kachin in India, Buddhism predominates.