Nhkum Bu Lu is originally from Kachin State and has been living in the UK for nearly a decade. She has four children living in different parts of the world; this is a consequence of the recent diaspora of young Kachin people who have left to work and study abroad. Because her husband, Mahkaw Hkun Sa, was imprisoned as a political prisoner, she was forced to raise her family more or less single handed. She talks about her experience of the transition from civil war to ceasefire and how Kachin women like her have managed both the domestic economy and the economy of conflict during these years.
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The youtube video on the left relates the situation in and around Laiza in 2007, at the point at which the drugs crisis was deemed to be escalating rapidly. The video was made by local members of the Pan Kachin Development Society (PKDS). PKDS is referred to in the chapter by Mahkaw Hkun Sa.
Warning: contains graphic content. |