Laiza, the capital of free Kachin, in on the Chinese boarder. From there the KIA can tax the trading and access Chinese internet and phones which are far from uncensored, but more free than anything in Burma.
Starting in 1962, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) waged an insurgency against the Burmese military to regain the autonomy promised them in the Panlong agreement in 1947
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