You will exactly see how the Kachin people love our Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) as our lives .... ကခ်င္လူထုေတြဘယ္ေလာက္ကိုယ့္အမ်ိဳးကိုခ်စ္သလဲဆိုတာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈအေသးစိတ္ကိုဒီမွာေတြ႔ ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္.... ( Jinghpaw myu sha ni a teng tinang amyu mungdan a ntsa kade daram tsaw ra nga ai... KIO ni hpe kade daram tsaw ra ai ngu ai hpe ndai shamu shamawt lam hpe atsawm yu yu ga )
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.