Myanmar Soldiers Confess to Killing Three Kachin Refugees
2017-09-20
Six Myanmar soldiers, including regiment officers, have admitted to killing three ethnic Kachin refugees in the town of Mansi in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state, where the national army is engaged in hostilities with an ethnic armed group, a village official said.
The soldiers confessed that they were responsible for the killings during a hearing at military court on Tuesday in Mansi.
The three male refugees — Nhkum Gam Awng, 31, Maran Brang Seng, 22, and Labya Naw Hkum, 27, — were taken into custody on May 25 by soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion 319 while they were heading back to their refugee camp after gathering firewood near Hka Pra Yang village, sources told RFA's Myanmar Service at the time.
Their bodies were found three days later in nearby Maikaung village, they said.
Continued: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/myanmar-soldiers-confess-to-killing-three-kachin-refugees-09202017134700.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachin_peopleAccording to one source, approximately two-thirds of the Kachin people identify themselves as Christians.[8] However the Myanmar 2014 census found 64% of the population in Kachin State to be Buddhist, and just 34% Christian.[9] Many religious rituals and symbols, such as the annual Manao festival in Myitkyina, are celebrated as folkloric traditions.[10][11]
These folks are not Muslim and they have that Far East Asian (Chinese, etc.) look about them, not the Indian/Bangladesh/Pakistani look... so, this is interesting.
IOW, what are called a Hill-Tribe it looks to me like, like the Hmong,
Sharon Karen people, etc.
