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Screening the Marauders’ movements were native mountain tribesmen known as Kachins, who were organized under OSS Office of Strategic Services Detachment 101.
Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002
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He used magic tricks to convince superstitious Kachins the spirits wanted them to fight the Japanese and he often paid the small wiry tribesmen with opium.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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The Kachins worked out a truce agreement in 1994 that has held for 16 years.
Marc Gopin: For Rising China, Taoist And Confucianist Wisdom Should Inspire Positive Global Leadership Marc Gopin 2010
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It does not fully control the Hill Country on the west and east sides of the country, inhabited by ethnic groups including the Chins, Kachins, Shan and others.
Marc Gopin: For Rising China, Taoist And Confucianist Wisdom Should Inspire Positive Global Leadership Marc Gopin 2010
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It does not fully control the Hill Country on the west and east sides of the country, inhabited by ethnic groups including the Chins, Kachins, Shan and others.
Marc Gopin: For Rising China, Taoist And Confucianist Wisdom Should Inspire Positive Global Leadership Marc Gopin 2010
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The Kachins worked out a truce agreement in 1994 that has held for 16 years.
Marc Gopin: For Rising China, Taoist And Confucianist Wisdom Should Inspire Positive Global Leadership Marc Gopin 2010
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He used magic tricks to convince superstitious Kachins the spirits wanted them to fight the Japanese and he often paid the small wiry tribesmen with opium.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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In 1997, after that trip inside Burma, he started the Free Burma Rangers, a relief group that has launched more than 300 humanitarian missions and has 43 small medical teams among the Karens, Karennis, Shans, Chins, Kachins, and Arakanese — across the parts of highland Burma that embrace on three sides the central Irrawaddy River valley, home to the majority Burmans.
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Without being patronising, Delisle captures a lot of fascinating moments - the absurdity of censorship and surveillance, the Christian heroin-addicted Kachins of the north, a stay in a monastery.
November Books 5) Burma Chronicles nwhyte 2008
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In 1997, after that trip inside Burma, he started the Free Burma Rangers, a relief group that has launched more than 300 humanitarian missions and has 43 small medical teams among the Karens, Karennis, Shans, Chins, Kachins, and Arakanese — across the parts of highland Burma that embrace on three sides the central Irrawaddy River valley, home to the majority Burmans.
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